In this barely disguised roman à clef, the legendary American heiress, writer, and arts patron Natalie Clifford Barney, the dashing Italian baroness Mimi Franchetti, and the beautiful French courtesan Liane de Pougy share erotic liaisons that break all taboos and end in devastation as one unexpectedly becomes the “third woman.” Never before published in English, and only recently published in French, this modernist, experimental work has been brought to light by Chelsea Ray’s research and translation. 20 Rue Jacob was the residence of Natalie Clifford Barney, an American who, from 1909 until her death in 1972 at the age of ninety-five, held what has now become one of the great legendary salons of Paris. Book excerpt: This long-lost novel recounts a passionate triangle of love and loss among three of the most daring women of belle époque Paris. Women Lovers, or The Third Woman Natalie Clifford Barney, Edited and translated by Chelsea Ray, Introduction by Melanie C. This book was released on with total page 210 pages. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.Book Synopsis Women Lovers, Or The Third Woman by : Natalie Clifford Barneyĭownload or read book Women Lovers, Or The Third Woman written by Natalie Clifford Barney and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. autobiographical, sprightly 1926 novel of a Belle Époque lesbian love triangle appearing in English for the first time.”- Shelf Awareness “This book couldn’t have been published in 1926 even now it’s sometimes a bit shocking.”-Suzanne Rodriguez, author of Wild Heart “A first-ever translation that shines new light on Natalie Barney, the invincible ‘Amazon,’ sexual rebel, and arch-seducer of women who in the 1920s aspired to make Paris ‘the Sapphic Centre of the Western World.’ Chelsea Ray shows us another side to her: vulnerable, jealous, and volatile in love.”-Diana Souhami, author of Natalie and Romaine Latimer, author of Women Together/Women Apart She was also well known for her weekly salon in Paris that drew avant-garde writers, artists, musicians, and intellectuals to her home for more than sixty years. “Barney’s experimentation in Women Lovers with offbeat structural choices and narrative strategies, and its stylistic allegiances to decadent traditions, indicate how much of literary modernism’s rich texture has been ironed out in the writing and rewriting of that literary history.”-Tirza T. Product Details About the Author Natalie Clifford Barney (1876-1972) was an American-born writer of poems, epigrams, and memoirs.
This novel is an amazing revelation.”-Jean Chalon, author of Portrait of a Seductress “ Women Lovers has shown me a Natalie that I never knew, a fragile Natalie.
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