Īs the second oldest child, Barnes spent much of her childhood helping care for siblings and half-siblings. Zadel, who believed her son was a misunderstood artistic genius, struggled to provide for the entire family, supplementing her diminishing income by writing begging letters to friends and acquaintances. They had eight children, whom Wald made little effort to support financially. An advocate of polygamy, he married Barnes's mother, Elizabeth, in 1889 his mistress, Fanny Clark, moved in with them in 1897, when Djuna was five. Her father, Wald Barnes (Barnes's father was born Henry Aaron Budington but used a variety of names during his life, including Wald Barnes and Brian Eglington Barnes), was an unsuccessful composer, musician, and painter. Her paternal grandmother, Zadel Turner Barnes, was a writer, journalist, and Women's Suffrage activist who had once hosted an influential literary salon. Barnes was born in a log cabin in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York.
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