Publication details: Hogarth Press,1949,
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Bussy (ne Strachey, and the sister of Lytton, James, et al.) made two major contributions to the field of gay fiction: as the English translator of Gide, and as the author of this novel - published under the pseudonym 'Olivia' to create some distance between the narrative, and the events of her own life upon which it was closely based. The story is dedicated to the memory of Virginia Woolf, and carries an attractive dustjacket by Duncan Grant - it concerns the awakening of sexual consciousness at an all-girls boarding school in France, where the narrator becomes infatuated with one of her headmistresses. Bussy had herself attended such an institution in the 1880s - at the Les Ruches school run by Marie Souvestre, who also taught Natalie Clifford Barney and Eleanor Roosevelt.
1949, pp. 109, crown 8vo, original violet cloth with decoration stamped in gilt to upper board, backstrip lettered in gilt, spine a little cocked, top edge violet (but now dust-darkened), ownership inscription in pencil to flyleaf, dustjacket by Duncan Grant, this a little soiled overall and chipped at extremities, ragged along front flap-fold with an arcing closed tear at foot of front panel, good
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