

Vivien" as a young man of poetic genius began to snub at first and then simply ignore the newly un-closeted woman poet. Parisian critics who had praised the mysterious "R. This courageous act was the death-sentence of her literary career.

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. * Finalist for the Headmistress Press Charlotte Mew Prize Ren�e Vivien (n�e Pauline Mary Tarn, 1877-1909) was an English expatriate who made her home in Paris during the Belle �poque.
