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What makes marriage
Souvenirs indiscrets
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Why should I bother
A Perilous Advantage
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I often reflect
Ibid.
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When she bent over
‘Tribute to my Mother’, Archives of American Art
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Live and let live
Ibid.
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I loathe the enthusiasm
Pensées d’une amazone
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mind pickers
Ibid.
221
Love has always been
Dorothy Strachey, Olivia
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Your letter folds me
Eva Palmer to Natalie, 1901, Bibliothèque Jacques Doucet
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God will punish you
Pensées d’une amazone
226
I still need
My Blue Notebooks
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Ever since I remember
Undated, c.1900, Pike Barney letters, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian
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The butler announced
Souvenirs indiscrets
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‘The moon sulked
My Blue Notebooks
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a disquieting beginning
Souvenirs indiscrets
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she had brown eyes
Ibid.
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Impossible to find
Colette, The Pure and the Impure
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In you I find
Chalon, Portrait of a Seductress
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I did not want it
Souvenirs indiscrets
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I had an adorable
To John Lane, 30 December 1900, Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, on loan to University of Delaware
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Come my poet
No date, Henry W. Berg collection, New York Public Library
236
You are a darling
Quoted in Murray, Bosie
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Oh how I miss you
Undated, c.1901, Berg
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What do I care
Éparpillements
239
Barney’s pavilion
Artemis Leontis, Eva Palmer Sikelianos: A Life in Ruins
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I am so glad
1 March 1901, Berg
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Let us forget
Je me souviens
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Her power like her fortune
Portrait of a Seductress
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‘Oh my dear little
The Pure and the Impure
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Among the beverages
Ibid.
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I have walked after you
c.1906, Jacques Doucet
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What you are doing
Artemis Leontis, Eva Palmer Sikelianos: A Life in Ruins
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She was the only ancient Greek
Robert Payne, The Splendor of Greece, 1960
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I didn’t create a salon
Portrait of a Seductress
249
The universe came here
Edmond Jaloux, Les saisons littéraires
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If I dared
Remy de Gourmont, Letters to the Amazon, translated by Richard Aldington
251
I’ve never given up my
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihzoLrUkNoc
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I dread possessions
Pensées d’une amazone
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queen of Lesbos
Yvonne Serruys, Pensées (notebook, undated).
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used wake me up
Elisabeth de Gramont, Years of Plenty, translated by Florence and Victor Llona
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If she has suffered much
Quoted in Rapazzini, ‘Eternal Mate’
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I undress her
L’adultère ingénue, quoted in Rapazzini, ‘Eternal Mate’, Bibliothèque Doucet
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The blonde and the
Ibid.
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I shall have my room
Ibid.
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too good and too real
Ibid.
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We laugh all the time
My Blue Notebooks
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You know how you know
Truman Capote, Answered Prayers
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She never failed to
Romaine Brooks, No Pleasant Memories. And following
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icy as a cold draught
Michael de Cossart, Food of Love: Princesse Edmond de Polignac and her salon
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perfectly stuffed
30 November 1937, Virginia Woolf, Diary, vol. 5, 1936–41
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the head is bent
Quoted in Secrest, Between Me and Life
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The quarrel has reached
Quoted in Sylvia Kahan, Music’s Modern Muse
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The true reason
‘Americans in Europe’, New York World, 1887
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You know my very great
20 November 1912. Paul Sacher Stiftung, Basel
267
I would need
Stravinsky to Winnaretta, 11 December 1912. Eric van Lauwe, Paris
267
A large room
Élisabeth de Gramont, ‘Une Passion malheureuse’, La Revue de Paris, October 1931
268
I saw La Princesse
To Dorothy Bussy, 15 December 1936
268
Her collection of paintings
Bruno Monsaingeon, Mademoiselle: Conversations with Nadia Boulanger
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the most adorable
1904, private collection. Quoted in Music’s Modern Muse
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I was shown into
Annie Kenney, Memories of a Militant
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You are a brick
Ethel Smyth to Winnaretta, 13 April 1912, Bibliothèque Nationale, France
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swimming in happiness
To Valentine Gross, 18 January 1917, Satie, Correspondence, Paris, 2000
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We go on because
Winnaretta to Jean de Polignac, 18 Jan 1924. Quoted in Music’s Modern Muse
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What a dreadful thing
Violet to Vita, 11 May 1920, Violet to Vita
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She hung over life
Violet Trefusis, Don’t Look Round
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Princess Winnie taught
Harold Acton, More Memoirs of an Aesthete
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told a marvellous story
Duff to Diana Cooper, 6 February, 1927, A Durable Fire
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It is sensuous, greedy
Don’t Look Round
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wanting all calm
Romaine to Natalie, 16 May 1925, McFarlin
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Always remember Nat,
Romaine to Natalie, 25 July 1925, McFarlin
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Mrs Brooks puts bars
Élisabeth de Gramont, Pomp and Circumstance
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So Renata Borgatti is
Natalie to Romaine, 21 July 1920, McFarlin
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suggest thoughts of
Transcript of The Director of Public Prosecutions v. Rubinstein and Leopold Hill, Bow Street Police Court, 16 November 1928, National Archives of Canada
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Her hands and feet
Janet Flanner, Paris Was Yesterday
281
more Oscar like
Natalie Barney, In Memory of Dorothy Ierne Wilde: Oscaria
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half androgyne
Ibid.
283
On the street
In Memory of Dorothy Ierne Wilde
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Do you love me
Dolly to Natalie, undated, Jacques Doucet. And see Truly Wilde, 2000
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You overshadowed me
July 1927, Jacques Doucet
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Your life at present
Romaine to Natalie, 18 February 1931, McFarlin
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Romaine and Lily are
Dolly to Natalie, 18 March 1932, Jacques Doucet
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I am told by friends
R. Toulouse to Natalie, 20 July 1939, Jacques Doucet
285
utterly singular
In Memory of Dorothy Ierne Wilde
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Well she certainly hadn’t
Ibid.
285
extraordinary verbal gift
Ibid.
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If VT was a man
Victoria Sackville, unpublished diary, February 1920, Lilly Library
287
a kind of lighthouse
Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness
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perverse, dissolute, self
Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, The Angel and the Perverts
289
‘And’ said Dame Musset
Ladies Almanack
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Sold all 50 Almanacks
Djuna to Natalie, 8 January 1929, Jacques Doucet
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My angel’s weary
Natalie to Romaine, 23 August 1955, McFarlin
291
A love affair can cause
Romaine to Natalie, 28 September 1963, McFarlin
291
Even at night
Natalie to Romaine, 8 May 1964, McFarlin
Works by Natalie Barney
Adventures of the Mind, translated by John Spalding Gatton, 1992
A Perilous Advantage: The best of Natalie Clifford Barney, translated by Anna Livia, 1992
Aventures de l’esprit, 1982
Éparpillements, 1910
In Memory of Dorothy Ierne Wilde: Oscaria, 1951
Natalie Clifford Barney: Selected Writings, ed. Miron Grindea, 1963
Pensées d’une amazone, 1920
Quelques portraits – Sonnets de femmes, 1900
Souvenirs indiscrets, 1960
Traits et portraits, 1963
Works referencing Natalie Barney
Adams, Jad, ‘Olive Custance: A Poet Crossing Boundaries English Literature in Transition’, 1880–1920, vol. 61, no. 1, 2018
Allan, Tony, Americans in Paris, 1977
Barnes, Djuna, Ladies Almanack, 1928 and 1972
Beach, Sylvia, Shakespeare and Company, 1956
Benstock, Shari, Women of the Left Bank, 1986
Breeskin, Adelyn, Romaine Brooks: Thief of Souls, 1971
Bristow, Joseph, ‘There you will see your Page’: Olive Custance, Alfred Douglas and Lyrics of Sapphic Boyhood
Brooks, Romaine, No Pleasant Memories, unpublished manuscript, c.1938. Smithsonian
Carpenter, Humphrey, Geniuses Together: American Writers in Paris in the 1920s, 1987
Chalon, Jean, Portrait of a seductress: the world of Natalie Barney, translated by Carol Barko, 1979
Colette, The Pure and the Impure, 1941
Cooper, Duff and Diana, A Durable Fire: letters, edited by Artemis Cooper, 1983
Cossart, Michael de, Food of Love, Princesse Edmond de Polignac and her salon, 1978
Custance, Olive, Opals, 1987
Delarue-Mardrus, Lucie, The Angel and the Perverts, 1995
Douglas, Alfred, Autobiography, 1929
Field, Andrew, The Life and Times of Djuna Barnes, 1983
Fitch, Noel Riley, Walks in Hemingway’s Paris
Ford, Hugh, Published in Paris: American and British Writers, Printers and Publishers in Paris, 1920–39, 1980
Goujon, Jean-Paul, Renée Vivien, 1986
Gourmont, Remy de, Lettres intimes à l’Amazone, 1927
Gramont, Elisabeth de, Pomp and Circumstance, 1929
——Years of Plenty, 1931
Herring, Philip, Djuna, The Life and Work of Djuna Barnes, 1995
Jay, Karla, The Amazon and the Page: Natalie Clifford Barney and Renée Vivien, 1988
Kahan, Sylvia, Music’s Modern Muse: A Life of Winnaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac, 2003
Kenney, Annie, Memories of a Militant, 1924
King, Jean L., Alice Pike Barney, 1994
Klüver, Billy and Martin, Julie, Kiki’s Paris: Artists and Lovers 1900–1930, 1994
Leaska, Mitchell A. and John Phillips, eds. Violet to Vita. The Letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West, 1989
Leontis, Artemis, Eva Palmer Sikelianos: A Life in Ruins, 2019
Lorenz, Paul, Sappho 1900: Renée Vivien, 1977
Monsaingeon, Bruno, Mademoiselle: Conversations with Nadia Boulanger, 1988
Murray, Douglas, Bosie: A biography of Lord Alfred Douglas, 2000
Orenstein, Gloria Feman, ‘The Salon of Natalie Clifford Barney: An interview with Berthe Cleyrergue’, Signs, 1 April 1979, vol. 4
Palmer Sikelianos, Eva, Upward Panic, 1993
Plumpton, George, Truman Capote, 1997
Pougy, Liane de, My Blue Notebooks, trs. Diana Athill, 1979
Rapazzini, Francesco, ‘Elisabeth de Gramont, Natalie Barney’s “eternal mate”’, South Central Review, vol. 22, 2005
Rodriguez, Suzanne, Wild Heart: Natalie Clifford Barney’s Journey from Victorian America to the Literary Salons of Paris, 2002
Sackville-West, Vita, Challenge, 1974
Schenkar, Joan, Truly Wilde: The Unsettling Story of Dolly Wilde, 2000
Secrest, Meryle, Between Me and Life, 1976
Souhami, Diana, Mrs Keppel and Her Daughter, 1997
——Wild Girls: Paris, Sappho and art: the lives and loves of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks, 2004
Strachey, Dorothy, Olivia, 1949
Summerscale, Kate, The Queen of Whale Cay, 1998
Thurman, Judith, Colette: Secrets of the Flesh, 1999
Toklas, Alice B., ed. Edward Burns, Staying on Alone: Letters of Alice B. Toklas, 1974
Trefusis, Violet, Don’t Look Round, 1952
——Broderie anglaise, trs. Barbara Bray, 1986
Vivien, Renée, The Muse of the Violets, 1977
——A Woman Appeared to Me, 1982
Weeks, Jeffrey, Sex, Politics and Society, 1981
Weiss, Andrea, Paris Was a Woman, 1995
Wickes, George, The Amazon of Letters, 1977
Wineapple, Brenda, Genêt: A Biography of Janet Flanner, 1989
Gertrude Stein
The Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas papers are in 173 boxes in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale Collection of American Literature (YCAL). The Carl Van Vechten, Mabel Dodge Luhan and Florine Stettheimer papers are there too. The personal papers of Virgil Thomson are in the University of Colorado Boulder Libraries. Annette Rosenshine’s papers are at the Bancroft Library.
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Pigeons on the grass alas
Four Saints in Three Acts
295
The two things you never asked
Virgil Thomson
295
I like all the people who
Gertrude to Samuel Steward. See Dear Sammy
295
Why don’t you read
cited in Rogers, When This You See Remember Me
296
To try is to die
Everybody’s Autobiography
297
I have it, this interest in
The Making of Americans
297
father Mussolini and father
Everybody’s Autobiography
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298
You see it is the people
Haas, ‘Gertrude Stein Talking’
298
I guess you know
Gertrude to Harriet Levy, undated, Yale
299
Our little Gertie is a
Brinnin, J.M., The Third Rose
299
She had sound coming out of
Two: Gertrude Stein and Her Brother
299
liked to buy things
The Making of Americans
299
sharp and piercing
Ibid.
300
Come on papa
Ibid.
300
His children never could lose
Ibid.
301
And then he would be full up
Ibid.
301
You have to take care of her
Ibid.
301
a sweet gentle little woman
Ibid.
302
She was never important to
Ibid.
302
dragged a little wagon
Quoted in Rosalind Miller, Gertrude Stein: Form and Intelligibility
302
In other lands
The Making of Americans
303
Evolution was all over
Ibid.
303
He always liked to think about
Ibid.
303
It is better if you are
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