When she was six years old her family spent the summer at New York's Long Beach Hotel where Oscar Wilde happened to be speaking on his American lecture tour. Her father was son of a wealthy manufacturer of railway cars and of English descent while her mother was French, Dutch, and German. Natalie Barney was born in 1876 at Dayton, Ohio, to Albert Clifford Barney and Alice Pike Barney. Natalie Barney at about age 13, painted by Alice Pike Barney. In her writings, she supported feminism, paganism, and pacifism. Her indirect influence on literature, through her salon and her many literary friendships, can be seen in the number of writers who have addressed or portrayed her in their works. She was a noted poet, memoirist, and epigrammatist.īarney'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, expatriates who collected in Paris before and after the First World War. Natalie Clifford Barney (Octo– February 2, 1972) was an American expatriate who lived, wrote, and hosted a literary salon in Paris. Natalie Clifford Barney, painted in 1896 by her mother Alice Pike Barney.
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