Wild girls
Subtitle: Paris, Sappho, and art -- the lives and loves of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks
By: Diana Souhami.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780312343248
Subjects: Barney, Natalie Clifford.; Brooks, Romaine.; Authors, French -- 20th century -- Biography.; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.; Artists -- France -- Biography.; Americans -- France -- Biography.; Lesbians -- France -- Biography.; Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Wild Girls is the critically acclaimed true story of two wealthy American heiresses---one an artist, the other a writer---whose stormy, passionate love affair captivated Paris's salon set between the wars. Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks were rich, American, eccentric, and grandly lesbian. They met in Paris in 1915, and their relationship lasted more than fifty years, despite infidelity, separation, and temperamental differences. Romaine Brooks, a painter, was the product of an unhappy childhood and trusted no one but Natalie. Natalie Barney was passionate about life, sex, and love. Her Friday afternoon salons, attended by Gertrude Stein, and Colette and Edith Sitwell, were a magnet for social introductions and cultural innovations. Drawing from letters, papers, and paintings, Diana Souhami, the award-winning author of Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter, re-creates the lives and loves of this pair of dazzling and wild women."--Publisher's website.