Forster.īussy anonymously published one novel, Olivia, in 1949, printed by the Hogarth Press, the publishing house founded by Leonard and Virginia Woolf, in which lesbian loves get entangled in the emotional and sexually charged atmosphere of erotic pedagogy in a girls' school. She became friends with Charles Mauron, the lover of E.M. The family drama "shook the regime of Lancaster Gate to its foundations" (Holroyd), and, despite the silent disapprobation of the older Stracheys, Dorothy remained determined to marry him with what her brother Lytton later called "extraordinary courage".ĭorothy was bisexual and was involved in an affair with Lady Ottoline Morrell. Lady Strachey’s liberalism faltered at the sight of him actually cleaning up his plate with pieces of bread. He was five years younger, and the son of a shoemaker from the Jura town of Dole. In 1903, Dorothy (37) married the French painter Simon Bussy (1870–1954), who knew Matisse, and was on the fringes of the Bloomsbury circle. “Dorothy Strachey (1865-1960) was the sister of the novelist Lytton Strachey and a prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group…….Olivia, originally published under a pseudonym, is her only novel.The sons and daughters of Sir Richard Strachey and Lady Macdonald. In 1999, Olivia was included on the Publishing Triangle’s widely publicized list of the 100 Best Gay and Lesbian Novels of the 20th Century. Colette wrote the screenplay for the 1951 film adaptation of the novel. Olivia was dedicated to the memory of Strachey’s friend Virginia Woolf and published to acclaim in 1949. Marie Souvestre, whose influence lived on through former students like Natalie Barney and Eleanor Roosevelt. “Although not strictly autobiographical, Olivia draws on the author’s experiences at finishing schools run by the charismatic Mlle. Julie and the other head of the school, Mlle. Julie, and through this screen of love observes the tense romance between Mlle. The innocent but watchful Olivia develops an infatuation for her headmistress, Mlle. Dorothy Strachey’s classic Olivia captures the awakening passions of an English adolescent sent away for a year to a small finishing school outside Paris. “Considered one of the most subtle and beautifully written lesbian novels of the century, this 1949 classic returns to print in a Cleis Press edition.
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