<sod>[[Lucie Delarue-Mardrus]] wrote love poems to Barney in the early years of the century, and in 1930 depicted her in a novel, ''L'Ange et les Pervers'' (''The Angel and the Perverts''), in which she said she "analyzed and described Natalie at length as well as the life into which she initiated me".  The [[protagonist]] of the novel is a [[hermaphrodite]] named Marion who lives a double life, frequenting literary salons in female dress, then changing from skirt to trousers to attend gay [[party|soirées]]. Barney is Laurette Wells, a salon hostess who spends much of the novel trying to win back an ex-lover loosely based on Renée Vivien.<ref>Livia (1995), 22–23.</ref> The book's portrayal of her is, at times, harshly critical, but she is the only person whose company Marion enjoys.  He/she tells Wells that she is "perverse... dissolute, self-centered, unfair, stubborn, sometimes miserly... [but] a genuine rebel, ever ready to incite others to rebellion.... [Y]ou are capable of loving someone just as they are, even a thief—in that lies your only fidelity.  And so you have my respect."<ref>Delarue-Mardrus, 80–81.</ref><eod>
<sod>[[Lucie Delarue-Mardrus]] wrote love poems to Barney in the early years of the century, and in 1930 depicted her in a novel, ''L'Ange et les Pervers'' (''The Angel and the Perverts''), in which she said she "analyzed and described Natalie at length as well as the life into which she initiated me".  The [[protagonist]] of the novel is a [[hermaphrodite]] named Marion who lives a double life, frequenting literary salons in female dress, then changing from skirt to trousers to attend gay [[party|soirées]]. Barney is Laurette Wells, a salon hostess who spends much of the novel trying to win back an ex-lover loosely based on Renée Vivien.<ref>Livia (1995), 22–23.</ref> The book's portrayal of her is, at times, harshly critical, but she is the only person whose company Marion enjoys.  They tell Wells that she is "perverse... dissolute, self-centered, unfair, stubborn, sometimes miserly... [but] a genuine rebel, ever ready to incite others to rebellion.... [Y]ou are capable of loving someone just as they are, even a thief—in that lies your only fidelity.  And so you have my respect."<ref>Delarue-Mardrus, 80–81.</ref><eod>