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020 _a9781913111397
100 1 _aSchwartz, Selby Wynn
_d1975-
_4aut
245 1 0 _aAfter Sappho
_cSelby Wynn Schwartz
264 1 _aNorwich
_bGalley Beggar Press
_c2022
300 _a277 Seiten
520 _aWhat did we want? To begin with, we wanted what half the population had got by just being born. It’s 1895. Amid laundry and bruises, Rina Pierangeli Faccio gives birth to the child of the man who raped her – the man she has been forced to marry. Unbroken, she determines to change her name and, alongside it, her life. 1902. Romaine Brooks sails for Capri. She has barely enough money for the ferry, nothing for lunch; her paintbrushes are bald and clotted. But she is sure she can sell a painting – and is fervent in her belief that the island is detached from all fates she has previously suffered. In 1923, Virginia Woolf writes: I want to make life fuller – and fuller.
650 _aQueer
653 _aHistorisch
653 _aFeminismus
700 _aSchwartz, Selby Wynn
_d1975-
942 _cBU
999 _c1345
_d1345