Barney established a salon at her home that brought together artists of all nationalities, literary movements, and sexual identities; Joan Schenkar, a biographer of Barney’s lover Dorothy Wilde, calls it “the most subversive literary salon that ever existed.”
Irish playwright, poet and broadcaster
American poet and essayist
English writer; her most important works are her memoirs of the courts of Elizabeth (1818) James I (1822), and Charles I (1833), and her Memoirs of Addison (1843).
American author
English singer
American writer whose 1825 novel, “The Rebels, a Tale of the Revolution,” was very popular.
French politician, religious reformer, literary patron, and author.
Duchess of Newcastle and English writer.
American novelist