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Quelques Portraits-Sonnets de Femmes
	First edition cover
Author	Natalie Clifford Barney
Language	French
Genre	Poetry
Publisher	Library Paul Ollendorf
Publication date	1900
Publication place	United States
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]

References

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

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[1] Barbara Sicherman; Carol Hurd Green, eds. (1980). Notable American women: the modern period : a biographical dictionary. Vol. 4. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-62733-8.

[2] Suzanne Rodriguez (13 October 2009). Wild Heart: A Life: Natalie Clifford Barney and the Decadence of Literary Paris. p. 115. ISBN 9780061756498.

[3] Shari Benstock (1986). Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900–1940. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-79040-7.

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