Casanova-ish memoir; French pamphleteering of Pre-revolutionary days. Bitter, explicit and mildly disgusting; mentioned mostly to state emphatically that the French Libraire Astra, and the Astra’s Tower Checklist, have NO connection. ~ Marion Zimmer Bradley
Courtesans, Princesses, Lesbians, compiled by Marie-Louise Laurent-Tailhade "after the original texts" and translated by G. M. C., was printed in Paris for the English-language market by Librairie Astra and by the Fontaine d'Or, with copies marked as not to be sold in England or the United States. Collectors Publications issued an American paperback in 1968, with the compiler's name removed.
Barbara Grier's The Lesbian in Literature classed it as biography and rated it A, for major lesbian content. Marion Zimmer Bradley's 1960 Checklist was less kind, calling it "bitter, explicit and mildly disgusting," and it is best read as a piece of period erotica from the Paris trade in English-language books.
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Courtesans, Princesses, Lesbians, compiled by Marie-Louise Laurent-Tailhade "after the original texts" and translated by G. M. C., was printed in Paris for the English-language market by Librairie Astra and by the Fontaine d'Or, with copies marked as not to be sold in England or the United States. Collectors Publications issued an American paperback in 1968, with the compiler's name removed.
Barbara Grier's The Lesbian in Literature classed it as biography and rated it A, for major lesbian content. Marion Zimmer Bradley's 1960 Checklist was less kind, calling it "bitter, explicit and mildly disgusting," and it is best read as a piece of period erotica from the Paris trade in English-language books.