Books of Lesbian Interest

Donne Pericolose (Extraordinary Women)
Compton Mackenzie (trans Maria Napolitano)
Publisher: Longanesi
Milano, Italy

Year


 		1954        first publ UK: 1928
Cover / size: hardcover / h 19 cm * w 12.8 cm / 307 pp

Dustjacket?   yes

ISBN: n/a

Arbery Ref:   001291

Condition Good

Jacket: slight tears, nicks, creasing, soiling, discolouring. Boards (white with black and gilt decoration & lettering): generally clean but back board has a dent at foot and is slightly curved. Erased pencil notes on front endpaper. Pages clean.

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Mackenzie: Donne Pericolose






Plot / Content:                              Rating: L

A roman à clef about a group of lesbians arriving on the island of Sirene, a fictional version of Capri. It was published in Britain in the same year as two other ground-breaking novels with lesbian themes: Virginia Woolf's love letter to Vita Sackville-West, Orlando, and Radclyffe Hall's controversial polemic, The Well of Loneliness, but Mackenzie's satire did not attract legal attention.



Background / Biography:

Sir (Edward Montague) Compton Mackenzie, OBE, was an English-born writer and a Scottish nationalist. continued on wikipedia






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