Posts Tagged: Natalie Clifford Barney
19 books for 2019
Who needs this many books? You do. YOU need this many books.
My one, my eternal mate
“Let us place our ring as wide as the universe around the horizon of the future and of ourselves”: the marriage of Natalie Barney and Lily de Gramont
My one, my eternal mate
“Let us place our ring as wide as the universe around the horizon of the future and of ourselves”: the marriage of Natalie Barney and Lily de Gramont
Wild hearts at midnight
Flickering lanterns in the Temple d’Amitié…
Dress-down Friday: Liane de Pougy
Postcard images of the grande horizontale
Circles: Charles Henri Ford
His influence and relationships ranged from the Surrealists and the interwar expat community in Paris through to the Beats and the Factory, connections which he carried right into the 21st century.
Circles: Charles Henri Ford
His influence and relationships ranged from the Surrealists and the interwar expat community in Paris through to the Beats and the Factory, connections which he carried right into the 21st century.
Circles: Natalie Clifford Barney
One of the most prominent of Paris’s 20th century American expatriates, Barney networked at an Olympian level.
Circles: Natalie Clifford Barney
One of the most prominent of Paris’s 20th century American expatriates, Barney networked at an Olympian level.
The Other Amazon
“Who are these people? Why this gray palette? How does she shape a new concept of femininity?” Listen and find out…
The Other Amazon
“Who are these people? Why this gray palette? How does she shape a new concept of femininity?” Listen and find out…
Pearls: Natalie Clifford Barney
“For once you have committed yourself to a particular work, inspiration changes its form and becomes an obsession, like a love-affair…”
Pearls: Natalie Clifford Barney
“For once you have committed yourself to a particular work, inspiration changes its form and becomes an obsession, like a love-affair…”
Autour de Jacques
The catalogue offers much to gladden the heart of anyone interested in queer/Decadent undercurrents of the Belle Époque.
Autour de Jacques
The catalogue offers much to gladden the heart of anyone interested in queer/Decadent undercurrents of the Belle Époque.
Goodbye Dolly
The study of Dolly Wilde belongs to a discipline that doesn’t exist. While nominally listed as a “socialite” in biographical entries, she didn’t entertain on a grand scale, patronise genius or pioneer new ways of living, so you won’t find her mentioned in social histories of the 20th century.
Goodbye Dolly
The study of Dolly Wilde belongs to a discipline that doesn’t exist. While nominally listed as a “socialite” in biographical entries, she didn’t entertain on a grand scale, patronise genius or pioneer new ways of living, so you won’t find her mentioned in social histories of the 20th century.
Salon queen
Natalie Barney would become the 20th century’s greatest saloniste. Visitors to her Friday afternoon meetings included Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, André Gide, Jean Cocteau, Colette and Rainer Maria Rilke.
Salon queen
Natalie Barney would become the 20th century’s greatest saloniste. Visitors to her Friday afternoon meetings included Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, André Gide, Jean Cocteau, Colette and Rainer Maria Rilke.
Grey eminence
Romaine Brooks’s reputation has greatly increased in recent years. Tthese fearless studies of strong, self-possessed women enjoy a critical reputation far beyond their significance as curios of early 20th century lesbian life.
Grey eminence
Romaine Brooks’s reputation has greatly increased in recent years. Tthese fearless studies of strong, self-possessed women enjoy a critical reputation far beyond their significance as curios of early 20th century lesbian life.
