EP 101: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Natalie Barney)

Last week we shared the story of Djuna Barnes and you can’t have Djuna without the story of Natalie Barney, Natalie was born in October 1876 in Dayton Ohio to a very wealthy family. Raised with an appreciation of art, music, and culture from a very young age they spent weekends in museums and author readings. One reading while in New York over the summer took a young Natalie and her mother to a bookshop to listen to Oscar Wilde. While he was speaking a group of young boys beg...