Women Lovers, or the Third Woman

This long-lost novel recounts a passionate triangle of love and loss among three of the most daring women of belle époque Paris. 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.

Author: Natalie Clifford Barney
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 01/01/1985
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.60w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780299306908
ISBN10: 0299306909
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | LGBTQ+ | Lesbian

About the Author
Natalie Clifford Barney (1876 1972) was an American-born writer of poems, epigrams, and memoirs. 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. Chelsea Ray is an associate professor of French and comparative literature at the University of Maine at Augusta. She has been honored as a Chevalier des palmes academiques by France s Ministry of Education."