TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schwartz,Selby Wynn
TI  - After Sappho
SN  - 9781922458612 :
U1  - [Fic] 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Melbourne, VIC
PB  - Text Publishing
KW  - Women
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Lesbians
KW  - Feminists
KW  - Forced marriage
KW  - Rape
KW  - Artists
N2  - It's 1895. Amid laundry and bruises, Rina Pierangeli Faccio gives birth to the child of the man who raped her - and who she has also been forced to marry. Unbroken, she determines to change her name; and her life, alongside it. 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. Told in a series of cascading vignettes, featuring a multitude of voices, After Sappho is Selby Wynn Schwartz's joyous reimagining of the lives of a brilliant group of feminists, sapphists, artists and writers in the late 19th and early 20th century as they battle for control over their lives; for liberation and for justice
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