There are Natalie Barney naked pictures on Tumblr.

I am ... not sure how I feel about this.
My main feeling, I think, is definite DNW.

(Though seriously, of all the fin-de-siècle lesbians, I am on one level not at all surprised that Natalie's naked pics should be googleable. Oh, Natalie.)
(Also, I was looking up pics of her to put with this ( Read more... )

Just found out, while totally virtuously working on my essay (well, for about five minutes at least...) that one of Renee Vivien's girlfriends, Hélène de Rothschild* (de Zuylen de Nyevelt and probably several other names too) had all her papers that she'd kept about Vivien and her art and stuff looted/destroyed by the Nazis during the occupation of ( Read more... )

I am taking a break from 'pretending to work' to calculate just how much work I have to do. My awesome maths skills are telling me that if I write 5000 words/week for the next three weeks, I will get everything done and even have time to edit and stuff in 9th Week. 5000 words. I can totally do that. Really.
Even more wildly optimistic: I have so far ( Read more... )

 Well, I have had this journal for however many years, switching from my 2003 first journal when I decided that ‘AineTassorosso’ was a bit of a mouthful to type on a daily basis. The diary-keeping I’ve done since then has been very sporadic, on paper and (particularly since my parents started fostering) in ungrammatical French. But maybe this time ( Read more... )