Quelques Portraits-Sonnets de Femmes explained

Quelques Portraits-Sonnets de Femmes
Author:Natalie Clifford Barney
Country:United States
Language:French
Genre:Poetry
Publisher:Library Paul Ollendorf
Release Date:1900
Media Type:Print (Chapbook)
Pages:66

Quelques Portraits-Sonnets de Femmes is a poetry chapbook, by Natalie Clifford Barney, with watercolor illustrations by Alice Pike Barney.[1] It was published in an edition of 500, by Librarie Paul Ollendorf. The poems were dedicated to various women, by initials. The poems were criticized for being conventional. However, the radical subject matter of lesbianism caused a scandal.[2] Her father, Alfred Barney, bought up the copies and plates.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Notable American women: the modern period : a biographical dictionary. 4. Barbara Sicherman . Carol Hurd Green. Harvard University Press. 1980. 978-0-674-62733-8.
  2. Book: Wild Heart: A Life: Natalie Clifford Barney and the Decadence of Literary Paris . Suzanne Rodriguez. 13 October 2009 . 115 . 9780061756498 .
  3. Book: Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900–1940. Shari Benstock. Shari Benstock. University of Texas Press. 1986. 978-0-292-79040-7.