If this seems unsettling in the current feminist moment, where misconduct and consent are rightly on the agenda, it is also exactly this focus on a form of maternal eroticism that makes both the book and the film distinctive even among other lesbian representations" (Wilson).īussy was a member of the Strachey family and part of the Bloomsbury circle. The work "shows a world where education and intellectual curiosity, for girls, go hand in hand with emotional and erotic infatuation. In 1950, it was adapted into a film of the same name by the pioneering film director Jacqueline Audry, who was "virtually the only woman working in the French studio system of the 1950s" (Mayne). This copy has the bookplate of educator Muriel Orr-Ewing on the front pastedown. The novel is a fictionalized account of Bussy's education at the French all-girls boarding school Les Ruches and her amorous feelings towards its founder, Marie Souvestre. First edition, first impression, of the author's only novel, a pseudonymously published classic of lesbian literature.
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