The Amazon of Letters: The Life and Loves of Natalie Barney

New York: Popular Library, 1978. First Popular Library Edition . Mass Market Paperback. Good. 318 Pages Indexed. June 1978 Edition. Some soiling and fading to covers and minor edge wear. Page and endpapers are lightly age-tanned. Beyond that is a tight book with no marks or stamps. Illustrated with photographs. Natalie Barney came to Paris from America in 1894, a young woman possessed of beauty, brilliance, wealth. She was also the most notorious lesbian of her age. She attracted the admiration of leading men of letters of the day, commanded a salon that became a center of cultural life, and herself made life and conversation a delightful form of art. But the heart of Natalie Barney's life centered in a different area. For Natalie was not only a pioneering feminist, she was an insatiable, immensely skillful seductress whose list of female conquests was extraordinary both for quality and quantity. Now for the first- time her full story is told.