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No Modernism Without Lesbians

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by Diana Souhami


  216

  What makes marriage

  Souvenirs indiscrets

  216

  Why should I bother

  A Perilous Advantage

  217

  I often reflect

  Ibid.

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  When she bent over

  ‘Tribute to my Mother’, Archives of American Art

  218

  Live and let live

  Ibid.

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  I loathe the enthusiasm

  Pensées d’une amazone

  219

  mind pickers

  Ibid.

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  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

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  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

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  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

  241

  ‘Oh my dear little

  The Pure and the Impure

  242

  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

  252

  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.

  257

  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

  263

  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

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  I would need

  Stravinsky to Winnaretta, 11 December 1912. Eric van Lauwe, Paris

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  A large room

  Élisabeth de Gramont, ‘Une Passion malheureuse’, La Revue de Paris, October 1931

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  I saw La Princesse

  To Dorothy Bussy, 15 December 1936

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  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.

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  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

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  utterly singular

  In Memory of Dorothy Ierne Wilde

  285

  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

  288

  perverse, dissolute, self

  Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, The Angel and the Perverts

  289

  ‘And’ said Dame Musset

  Ladies Almanack

  290

  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

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  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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  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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