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90 Years on ‘Olivia’ Remains a Classic of Lesbian Literature
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90 Years on ‘Olivia’ Remains a Classic of Lesbian Literature

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 / 30 June 2020

It's good that we have our happy LGBTQ stories today, but it's also important to appreciate and understand the daunting depths of feeling that a love repressed can produce. In Dorothy Strachey's case, it produced the masterful Olivia.

Surreal Visions of a Girls’ Boarding School in Jacqueline Audry’s ‘Olivia’
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Surreal Visions of a Girls’ Boarding School in Jacqueline Audry’s ‘Olivia’

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 / 11 December 2019

The world always has a reason why sex is wrong, so perhaps the most subversive element in Jacqueline Audry's Olivia is its refusal to condemn.

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Pipes You See, Pipes You Don’t: Lost in the Pancakes

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 / 3 August 2011