A Crown of Violets Vivien ReneePaperback
* Finalist for the Headmistress Press Charlotte Mew PrizeRenee Vivien (nee Pauline Mary Tarn, 1877-1909) was an English expatriate who made her home in Paris during the Belle Epoque. In 1903, Vivien's…
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* Finalist for the Headmistress Press Charlotte Mew PrizeRenee Vivien (nee Pauline Mary Tarn, 1877-1909) was an English expatriate who made her home in Paris during the Belle Epoque. In 1903, Vivien's collection of translations and adaptations from the Ancient Greek poetry of Sappho became one of the first works of modern European lesbian literature to be published by a lesbian writer under her real name. This courageous act was the death-sentence of her literary career. Parisian critics who had praised the mysterious "R. Vivien" as a young man of poetic genius began to snub at first and then simply ignore the newly un-closeted woman poet. Even in the face of ridicule and disrespect, Vivien continued to write and publish poetry, short stories, translations, plays, epigrams, and a novel based on her real-life romances with Natalie Clifford Barney and the Baroness Helene van