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Pure and the Impure

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

Carpenter,