Paris Was a Woman
A film portrait of the creative community of women writers, artists, photographers and editors (including Colette, Djuna Barnes, Gertrude Stein and Alice B.
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Natalie Clifford Barney (October 31, 1876 – February 2, 1972) was an American writer who hosted a literary salon at her home in Paris that brought together French and international writers. She influenced other authors through her salon and also with her poetry, plays, and epigrams, often thematically tied to her lesbianism and feminism.
Barney was born into a wealthy family. She was partly educated in France, and expressed a desire from a young age to live openly as a lesbian. She moved to France with her first romantic partner, Eva Palmer. Inspired by the work of Sappho, Barney began publishing love poems to women under her own name as early as 1900. Writing in both French and English, she supported feminism and pacifism. She opposed monogamy and had many overlapping long and short-term relationships, including on-and-off romances with poet Renée Vivien and courtesan Liane de Pougy and longer relationships with writer Élisabeth de Gramont and painter Romaine Brooks.
Barney hosted a salon at her home in Paris for more than 60 years, bringing together writers and artists from around the world, including many leading figures in French, American, and British literature. Attendees of various sexualities expressed themselves and mingled comfortably at the weekly gatherings. She worked to promote writing by women and hosted a "Women's Academy" (L'Académie des Femmes) in her salon as a response to the all-male French Academy. The salon closed for the duration of World War II while Barney lived in Italy with Brooks. She initially espoused some pro-fascist views, but supported the Allies by the end of the war. After the war, she returned to Paris, resumed the salon, and continued influencing or inspiring writers such as Truman Capote.
Barney had a wide literary influence. Remy de Gourmont addressed public letters to her using the nickname l'Amazon (the Amazon), and Barney's association with both de Gourmont and the nickname lasted until her death. Her life and love affairs served as inspiration for many novels written by others, ranging from de Pougy's erotic French bestseller Idylle Saphique to Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness, the most famous lesbian novel of the twentieth century.[1]
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In French[edit]
- Quelques Portraits-Sonnets de Femmes (Paris: Ollendorf, 1900)
- Cinq Petits Dialogues Grecs (Paris: La Plume, 1901; as "Tryphé")
- Actes et entr'actes (Paris: Sansot, 1910)
- Je me souviens (Paris: Sansot, 1910)
- Eparpillements (Paris: Sansot, 1910)
- Pensées d'une Amazone (Paris: Emile Paul, 1920)
- Aventures de l'Esprit (Paris: Emile Paul, 1929)
- Nouvelles Pensées de l'Amazone (Paris: Mercure de France, 1939)
- Souvenirs Indiscrets (Paris: Flammarion, 1960)
- Traits et Portraits (Paris: Mercure de France, 1963)
- Amants féminins ou la troisième (Paris: ErosOnyx, 2013)
In English[edit]
- Poems & Poèmes: Autres Alliances (Paris: Emile Paul, New York: Doran, 1920) – bilingual collection of poetry
- The One Who Is Legion (London: Eric Partridge, Ltd., 1930; Orono, Maine: National Poetry Foundation, 1987) facsimile reprint with an afterword by Edward Lorusso
English translations[edit]
- A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney (New Victoria Publishers, 1992); edited and translated by Anna Livia
- Adventures of the Mind (New York University Press, 1992); translated by John Spalding Gatton
- Women Lovers, or The Third Woman (University of Wisconsin Press, 2016); edited and translated by Chelsea R
Natalie Barney, 88, Reviews Paris Life - The New York Times
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1964
PARIS, Nov. 7—Natalie Clifford Barney, the Ohio born literary hostess and poet in Paris, who was the close friend of Proust, Claudel, Anatole France, Rilke, ...
PARIS, Nov. 7—Natalie Clifford Barney, the Ohio born literary hostess and poet in Paris, who was the close friend of Proust, Claudel, Anatole France, Rilke, D'Annunzio, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, T. S. Eliot, Paul Valery, Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, has just passed her 88th birthday.
NATALIE BARNEY AUTHOR, 94, DIES - The New York Times
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1972年2月3日 — Miss Barney was the widow of Albert Clifford Barney, a Washington social leader, when, in 1911, she was married to Christian Hemmick in Paris.
Truly Wilde - The New York Times
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Much of Dolly's adulthood was spent in the unsuccessful search for a `home life' with Natalie Clifford Barney, the salonnière who was the twentieth ...
“Paris Was a Woman” has been reissued by Counterpoint Press.
“The lives and work of these women have been covered in other books, but Weiss’ effort stands head and shoulders above most of these… Witty, accessible, inspired, this is a thoroughly enjoyable book that you will keep coming back to.” — Gay Times, London
“Andrea Weiss has told the fascinating, less well known story of the remarkable women artists and writers who made pre-war Paris the cultural capital of the world — riveting!”
— Edmund White
“Paris Was a Woman is a classic Modernist cultural biography of the places and people who made Paris the center of the avant-garde universe in the 1920s. People are still to be seen clutching their (our) old copies outside the addresses where Gertrude and Alice and Djuna and Natalie, their lovers and their characters, changed and charged the atmosphere with sex and sexual politics, love, heartbreak and radical creativity. The book has always graced my classroom. Now a new generation will enjoy the source text of the Modernist feminine/feminist.” — Jane Marcus, author of Virginia Woolf and the Languages of Patriarchy; Art and Anger: Reading Like a Woman; Hearts of Darkness: White Women Write Race
“[In] Andrea Weiss’s enjoyable book . . . the bohemian world of Paris during the 1920s is
more interestingly and accurately conceived as a community of women . . . She draws on
a wealth of research [and] has a professional eye for what a photographic portrait is.”
— The Times Literary Supplement
“The strength of this book lies in its upbeat exploration of the pairings, connections, and
enabling gestures that briefly made Paris not a mistress but a gifted woman.”
— Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
Profusely illustrated and painstakingly researched, this book is an enlightening account of women who between wars found their self and their voice in Paris. Though mostly concerned with the stories of lesbian or bisexual women such as Colette, Gertrude Stein, Alice Toklas, Sylvia Beach, Djuna Barnes and Natalie Barney who came to the City of Light attracted by an aura of unbridled freedom, this book will appeal to all those who are interested in this fascinating early period of the twentieth century as well.
Paris Was a Woman:
Counterpoint Press, 2013. Pandora Press UK and Harper San Francisco USA, 1995. Winner of the 1996 Lambda Book Award (“the Lammies”).
Paris Was a Woman is an illustrated collective portrait of the unique community of women who became known as the ‘women of the Left Bank’. Authors Colette, Djuna Barnes and Gertrude Stein, poets H.D. and Natalie Clifford Barney, painters Romaine Brooks and Marie Laurencin, editors Bryher, Alice Toklas, Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, photographers Berenice Abbott and Gisele Freund, booksellers Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier, and journalist Janet Flanner all figured in this legendary milieu. A wealth of photographs, paintings, drawings, and literary fragments, many previously unpublished, combine with Andrea Weiss’s lively and revealing text to give an unparalleled insight into this extraordinary network of women for whom Paris was neither mistress nor muse, but a different kind of woman.
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