Renée Vivien

Colette issued in volume form, through Flammarion , her novel La Naissance du Jour: Roman; that month her Renée Vivien appeared in a little collection, Les Amis d'Edouard (that is, of writer and...

She was buried near Renée Vivien at the Passy Cemetery. In accordance with her wishes, the word écrivain (meaning writer, implicitly male) was inscribed on her tombstone.

NCB learned that her former lover, Renée Vivien , had committed suicide, aged only just past thirty.

NCB 's relationship with poet Renée Vivien , though brief, made a deep and lasting impression on Barney. Vivien was a pseudonym for Pauline Tarn , an English poet and prose writer who wrote primarily...

NCB has been a magnet for biographers (recently as the subject with Romaine Brooks of Diana Souhami 's Wild Girls in 2004 and as a minor character in Joan Schenkar 's Truly Wilde: the Unsettling...

One of the twelve sections is no more fifty words. The novel's decadent style inhabits the minds of several characters, particularly that of the tall, fragile, perpetually exhausted but secretly sexually voracious Antonia Mount. Her...

This inspired, among others, Amy Levy ,Michael Field , Natalie Barney , Renée Vivien , and Colette .

Based on NCB 's relationship with Renée Vivien , the narrative is a passionate exploration of love for a woman: My love is a selfish, glorious, god-like thing. It is very theatrical. It is very...

Like her earlier novels, this one seems to be partly based on her relationship with Renée Vivien , who committed suicide twenty years before it was published. The story is told from the point of...

In this text Minnie and her family return somewhat changed. While all of Minnie's relatives have taken male lovers (all named John, perhaps in honour of the name by which Radclyffe Hall liked to be...

Anna Livia contributed entries on Natalie Barney and Elana Dykewomon to The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage (1994), as well as entries for Bonnie Zimmerman 's Lesbian Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia (2000) on Natalie Barney

NCB completed another work inspired by her relationship with Renée Vivien , Je me souviens. It was published anonymously in 1910, after Vivien's death.

The first half, devoted to men, describes NCB 's encounters with Oscar Wilde , Anatole France , Remy de Gourmont , Marcel Proust , Gabriele D'Annunzio , Max Jacob , and others. The second part...

In the preface, NCB comments that she has never written anything that was not inspired by love or intimacy. The volume contains a long piece on Renée Vivien , and shorter, intimate sketches (...

Colette imagines the Ladies of Llangollen (Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby , born during the eighteenth century) living among twentieth-century accoutrements like cars, cigarettes, and crossword puzzles. They move in the same...