Forbidden Fires by Margaret C. Anderson

Forbidden Fires

Margaret C. Anderson

Part memoir, part novel, includes over 97 photographs of Margaret Anderson’s life.

The novel that Margaret Anderson called ‘the story I want to tell, and which I love to remember.’ A treasure trove of lesbian history.

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From Booklist

Anderson (1886^-1973) founded and edited the famous Little Review, which gave chapters of Joyce’s Ulysses their U.S. debut and thereby brought Anderson a conviction for publishing obscene literature. She wrote this fictionalized account of the early years of her romance with French actress and singer Georgette Leblanc in 1958. It consists of meetings and letters during a years-long cat-and-mouse game in which Audrey Leigh (Leblanc) puts off the fictionalized Margaret with claims of a religious devotion that keeps her from even mentioning, let alone acting on, lesbian love. Margaret’s prizes for playing along are infrequent words of adoration circumspectly spoken. Some may find this a fascinating story of psychic seduction and obsession with the unattainable; others, a neurotic tease that makes them hope each woman would go find fulfillment elsewhere. Perhaps more interesting are Mathilda Hills’ biographical introduction and her postscript about the quest, which involved interviewing Anderson’s remaining friends and lovers, to find this very short novel for the sake of lesbian history and literature. Whitney Scott


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Details

ISBN 1562801236
Genre Autobiography/Biography
Copyright Date 1996
Publication Date Jun-96
Publisher Naiad Press
Editor Mathilda Hills
Format Trade Paperback
No. of Pages 162
Language English
Rating Good
Editor Mathilda Hills
Subject Lesbians – Fiction
BookID 4206

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