{"id":18732,"date":"2013-09-10T00:05:15","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T00:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/?p=18732"},"modified":"2013-09-10T00:05:15","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T00:05:15","slug":"diana-by-diana-frederics-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/diana-by-diana-frederics-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Diana by Diana Frederics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Diana<\/em><\/h2>\n

A Strange Autobiography<\/em><\/h3>\n

Diana Frederics<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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This is the unusual and compelling story of Diana, a tantalizingly beautiful woman who sought love in the strange by-paths of Lesbos. Fearless and outspoken, it dares to reveal that hidden world where perfumed caresses and half-whispered endearments constitute the forbidden fruits in a Garden of Eden where men are never accepted.<\/p>\n

This is how Diana: A Strange Autobiography<\/i> was described when it was published in paperback in 1952. The original 1939 hardcover edition carried with it a Publisher’s Note: This is the autobiography of a woman who tried to be normal.<\/p>\n

In the book, Diana is presented as the unexceptional daughter of an unexceptional plutocratic family. During adolescence, she finds herself drawn with mysterious intensity to a girl friend. The narrative follows Diana’s progress through college; a trial marriage that proves she is incapable of heterosexuality; intellectual and sexual education in Europe; and a series of lesbian relationships culminating in a final tormented triangular struggle with two other women for the individual salvation to be found in a happy couple.<\/p>\n

In her introduction, Julie Abraham argues that Diana is not really an autobiography at all, but a deliberate synthesis of different archetypes of this confessional genre, echoing, as it does, more than a half-dozen novels. Hitting all the high and low points of the lesbian novel, the book, Abraham illustrates, offers a defense of lesbian relationships that was unprecedented in 1939 and radical for decades afterwards.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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