sentences:  She was married to the translator J. C. Mardrus from 1900 to 1915, but her primary sexual orientation was toward women.She was involved in affairs with several women throughout her lifetime, and she wrote extensively of lesbian love.In 1902-03 she wrote a series of love poems to the American writer and salon hostess Natalie Clifford Barney, published posthumously in 1957 as "Nos secrètes amours" ("Our Secret Loves").