232
In you I find
Chalon, Portrait of a Seductress
233
I did not want it
Souvenirs indiscrets
235
I had an adorable
To John Lane, 30 December 1900, Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, on loan to University of Delaware
235
Come my poet
No date, Henry W. Berg collection, New York Public Library
236
You are a darling
Quoted in Murray, Bosie
236
Oh how I miss you
Undated, c.1901, Berg
239
What do I care
Éparpillements
239
Barney’s pavilion
Artemis Leontis, Eva Palmer Sikelianos: A Life in Ruins
240
I am so glad
1 March 1901, Berg
240
Let us forget
Je me souviens
241
Her power like her fortune
Portrait of a Seductress
241
‘Oh my dear little
The Pure and the Impure
242
Among the beverages
Ibid.
244
I have walked after you
c.1906, Jacques Doucet
244
What you are doing
Artemis Leontis, Eva Palmer Sikelianos: A Life in Ruins
246
She was the only ancient Greek
Robert Payne, The Splendor of Greece, 1960
248
I didn’t create a salon
Portrait of a Seductress
249
The universe came here
Edmond Jaloux, Les saisons littéraires
250
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
253
queen of Lesbos
Yvonne Serruys, Pensées (notebook, undated).
255
used wake me up
Elisabeth de Gramont, Years of Plenty, translated by Florence and Victor Llona
255
If she has suffered much
Quoted in Rapazzini, ‘Eternal Mate’
255
I undress her
L’adultère ingénue, quoted in Rapazzini, ‘Eternal Mate’, Bibliothèque Doucet
257
The blonde and the
Ibid.
257
I shall have my room
Ibid.
257
too good and too real
Ibid.
258
We laugh all the time
My Blue Notebooks
260
You know how you know
Truman Capote, Answered Prayers
260
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
263
perfectly stuffed
30 November 1937, Virginia Woolf, Diary, vol. 5, 1936–41
263
the head is bent
Quoted in Secrest, Between Me and Life
264
The quarrel has reached
Quoted in Sylvia Kahan, Music’s Modern Muse
265
The true reason
‘Americans in Europe’, New York World, 1887
267
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
269
the most adorable
1904, private collection. Quoted in Music’s Modern Muse
270
I was shown into
Annie Kenney, Memories of a Militant
270
You are a brick
Ethel Smyth to Winnaretta, 13 April 1912, Bibliothèque Nationale, France
271
swimming in happiness
To Valentine Gross, 18 January 1917, Satie, Correspondence, Paris, 2000
271
We go on because
Winnaretta to Jean de Polignac, 18 Jan 1924. Quoted in Music’s Modern Muse
271
What a dreadful thing
Violet to Vita, 11 May 1920, Violet to Vita
272
She hung over life
Violet Trefusis, Don’t Look Round
273
Princess Winnie taught
Harold Acton, More Memoirs of an Aesthete
273
told a marvellous story
Duff to Diana Cooper, 6 February, 1927, A Durable Fire
274
It is sensuous, greedy
Don’t Look Round
275
wanting all calm
Romaine to Natalie, 16 May 1925, McFarlin
276
Always remember Nat,
Romaine to Natalie, 25 July 1925, McFarlin
276
Mrs Brooks puts bars
Élisabeth de Gramont, Pomp and Circumstance
277
So Renata Borgatti is
Natalie to Romaine, 21 July 1920, McFarlin
278
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
280
Her hands and feet
Janet Flanner, Paris Was Yesterday
281
more Oscar like
Natalie Barney, In Memory of Dorothy Ierne Wilde: Oscaria
281
half androgyne
Ibid.
283
On the street
In Memory of Dorothy Ierne Wilde
284
Do you love me
Dolly to Natalie, undated, Jacques Doucet. And see Truly Wilde, 2000
284
You overshadowed me
July 1927, Jacques Doucet
284
Your life at present
Romaine to Natalie, 18 February 1931, McFarlin
285
Romaine and Lily are
Dolly to Natalie, 18 March 1932, Jacques Doucet
285
I am told by friends
R. Toulouse to Natalie, 20 July 1939, Jacques Doucet
285
utterly singular
In Memory of Dorothy Ierne Wilde
285
Well she certainly hadn’t
Ibid.
285
extraordinary verbal gift
Ibid.
286
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
291
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
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