![]() ![]() ![]() Eva’s acts helped transform the fragmented Sapphic poetic corpus into a new way of thinking and creating, before her differences with Barney propelled her to move to Greece to live a different version of the Sapphic life.īut what was Greece to Eva? By what journey of intellect and desire had she come to embrace this particular Greek prototype?Ī notion that the new world found creative ground in old things was integral to Eva’s 19th-century upbringing. From 1900 to the summer of 1907, the years when she moved with Barney between the United States and Paris, she developed a performance style that complemented the poetic language of Vivien and Barney by implicating Sappho in the practice of modern life. Yet Eva’s correspondence, along with such sources as photographs and newspaper coverage, indicate that she participated in many more performances. She has made cameo appearances as the “pre-Raphaelite” beauty with “the most miraculous long red hair” who performed in two of Barney’s garden theatricals in Paris. ![]() They appear in the history of gay and lesbian sexuality as the women who contributed substantially to the turn-of-the-century decadent rewriting of Baudelaire’s lexicon of the sexualized woman.Įva Palmer is largely absent from this history. The quintessential figure of female same-sex desire and Sapphism, or lesbianism. ![]()
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