![]() ![]() ![]() Barnes briefly studied art at the Pratt Institute and the Art Students League of New York, but eventually took a job as a reporter for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. The marriage was extremely short-lived (it lasted no more than two months by many accounts) and Barnes moved to New York City with her mother and three brothers in 1912, after Wald and Elizabeth divorced. ![]() When Djuna Barnes was 18, her father and grandmother pressured her into marrying Fanny Clarkâs brother, Percy Faulkner, who was 52 at the time. Wald was a failed composer and artist, so his mother, Zadel Barnes, kept the growing family financially afloat. Wald Barnes believed in polygamy, and so he brought his mistress, Fanny Clark, to live with the family. She was the second child of Wald and Elizabeth Barnes. Djuna Barnes was born in a log cabin in New York State on June 12, 1892. ![]()
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