{"id":31481,"date":"2021-01-07T10:22:03","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T10:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/the-travails-of-jane-saint-by-josephine-saxton-2\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T14:57:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T14:57:54","slug":"the-travails-of-jane-saint-by-josephine-saxton-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/the-travails-of-jane-saint-by-josephine-saxton-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Travails of Jane Saint by Josephine Saxton"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Travails of Jane Saint<\/em><\/h2>\n

And Other Stories<\/em><\/h3>\n

Josephine Saxton<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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The title novella tells of the adventures of revolutionary leader Jane Saint as she travels through an alternate dimension or astral plane, seeking to find a way to make a fundamental change to the natures of men and women which will allow humanity to move towards a more equal society. She moves through a shifting and often symbolic landscape, helped variously by an alchemist and his wife, a philosophical talking dog, a griffin-demon hybrid creature, Joan of Arc, and her own daughters; her adventures are absurdist and surreal and told with a great deal of subtle wit and humour. The other stories are much shorter. ‘Woe, Blight and, in Heaven, Laughs’ is a rather grim postapocalyptic reworking of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; ‘Gordon’s Women’ is a more cheerful variant on the total-male-domination-secret-female-underground setup of Suzy McKee Charnas’s Holdfast novels; ‘The Message’, which was probably my favourite story in the book, is an almost-realist story of lonely, repressed fiftysomething Edna, whose attempts to deliver a message handed to her by a dying person in hospital take her on a quest around her neighbourhood; ‘Heads Africa Tails America’ was very surreal and really left me cold; and ‘The Pollyanna Enzyme’ posits a situation where it turns out that the one thing that really does drive humanity to live in peace and harmony is its imminent extinction. ~ Sadie Slater<\/div>\n
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