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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 Reviews: Arbery Books has a rare Italian translation of Extraordinary Women for sale here. Mackenzie also wrote Thin Ice, about a gay British Member of Parliament, and Vestal Fire, also set in Capri, with a strong gay element. Use the Search Box left to find these books. Arbery Books also sells secondhand and rare non-gay fiction and non-fiction. Click here for our full list. |
"About four o'clock of an exquisite April afternoon little Miss Chimbley emerged from an aromatic tangle of lentisk and rosemary upon a stretch of level green (cleared by the local baker to provide his ovens with fuel) half way up one of the foothills that lead on to the great amphitheatre of limestone heights towering behdind Stabia in the Bay of Napes. She sat down in the fresh grass plumed with rosy orchises and tried to recover her breath after the ascent. Her puffing mingled with the murmur of the placed sea far below, with the etherealized shrieks of children at play in the white-roofed town, with the bourdon of the wild bees at their honeying, and the flute of a mountain-thrush flashing up to greet the outflung shadows of the highest crags. At last with an effort Miss Chimbley picked herself up and, turning toward the bosky slopes behond, she quavered: 'Are you there, Lulu?'" opening paragraph Secondhand booksellers |
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