Natalie Clifford Barney October 31, 1876 – February 2, 1972), an American expatriate feminist and lesbian poet whose Paris salons were famous for drawing modernist artists (which she hosted for over 60 years), spent early years, beginning at age 10, in a house at 2306 Massachusetts Avenue NW on Sheridan Circle with her mother, the painter Alice Pike Barney. That house still stands; it is now the Embassy of Latvia. In 1900, Barney published Quelques Portraits-Sonnets de Femmes (Some Portrait-Sonnets of Women), becoming the first women poet to write openly about lesbian love since Sappho. Over the course of her life, she wrote seven books of poems and plays (in English and French), as well as a novel, two memoirs, and two books of epigrams. Barney wrote, “If I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem.”