Miss Barney

Description

Title: Miss Barney
Alternative Title: [Photograph of Natalie Barney standing and holding a flower]
Creator: Cautin Berger
Published / Created: 1900
Publication Place: Paris
Abstract: This collection consists principally of photographic prints of Barney at various ages: as a teenager; as a young woman in Victorian attire and in riding gear; with Gabriele d'Annunzio; with Romaine Brooks; with unidentified friends; and by herself at age 48. Also included are: a photographic postcard addressed to "Chère Rachilde"; an inscribed calling card; and a copy of a book of poems by Louis Emié ("Hauts Desirs Sans Absence" Paris: Pierre Seghers, 1953), inscribed to Barney, with a letter from Barney to Emié.
Description: Natalie Barney was a poet, playwright, novelist and essayist, whose salon in Paris, while serving as a gathering point for writers in general, aimed to promote the writings of women.
Purchased from David J. Holmes on the Danforth N. Barney, Jr. Fund, 1996
Extent: 1 folder (1photographic print) : b&w ; 16.8 x 7.9 cm. on mount 20.6 x 9.7 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English
French

Format: still image
Genre: Photographic prints.--aat
photographs (AAT)
Studio portraits.--aat
Subject (Name): Barney, Natalie Clifford
D'Annunzio, Gabriele,--1863-1938
Emié, Louis,--1900-
Subject (Topic): Authors, American--20th century
Authors, French--20th century
Women authors, French

Access: Public
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Citation: Natalie Barney Collection. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.