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Natalie Clifford Barney

Born

in Dayton, Ohio, The United States

October 31, 1876

Died

February 02, 1972

Genre

Poetry, Nonfiction

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Natalie Clifford Barney (31 October 1876 – 2 February 1972) was an American expatriate who lived, wrote and hosted a literary salon in Paris. She was a noted poet, memoirist and epigrammatist.

Barney's salon was held at her home on Paris's Left Bank for more than 60 years and brought together writers and artists from around the world, including many leading figures in French literature along with American and British Modernists of the Lost Generation. She worked to promote writing by women and formed a "Women's Academy" in response to the all-male French Academy while also giving support and inspiration to male writers from Remy de Gourmont to Truman Capote.

She was openly lesbian and began publishing love poems to women under her own name as ...more

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Average rating: 4.0 · 507 ratings · 92 reviews · 26 distinct works • Similar authors

	Recuerdo... by Natalie Clifford Barney, Lydia Vázquez (translator) 4.26 avg rating — 132 ratings — published 1910 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Women Lovers, or The Third Woman by Natalie Clifford Barney, Chelsea Ray (Editor), Melanie C. Hawthorne (Introduction) 3.81 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 1926 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Correspondance amoureuse by Natalie Clifford Barney, Liane de Pougy 4.47 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney by Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (Editor, Translator, Afterword), Karla Jay (Introduction) 3.88 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1992 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The One Who Is Legion 4.28 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1930 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney (The Cutting Edge : Lesbian Life and Literature) by Natalie Clifford Barney, John Spalding Gatton (Translator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1929 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nouvelles Pensées de l'Amazone 3.71 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1939 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	L'adultère ingénue ou Etude d'une passion 3.81 avg rating — 16 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pensées d'une amazone 3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1921 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lettres à une connue 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“ When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.”
― Natalie Clifford Barney

tags: love, romance

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“My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.”
― Natalie Clifford Barney

tags: queer, vice

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“Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.”
― Natalie Clifford Barney

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