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Extraordinary Women is Compton Mackenzie 's twentieth novel. It is a satire [1] [2] [3] set on the island of Sirene, a fictionalized version of the real island of Capri, [4] and his second novel to be set in this location. The novel features many characters that are recognizable caricatures of lesbian women Mackenzie knew or knew of ...
- Compton Mackenzie
- 1928
734 reviews 969 followers. September 22, 2022. 1928 was a bumper year for lesbians in fiction, chiefly Woolf’s Orlando, Elizabeth Bowen’s The Hotel and Radclyffe Hall’s notorious The Well of Loneliness. Alongside these came Compton Mackenzie’s Extraordinary Women.
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Mary Anning was a gifted fossil hunter. She found evidence of previously undiscovered giant marine reptiles in the Lyme Regis cliffs. But being uneducated, she was ignored by the scientific male-dominated world of the 19th century. The novel, based on a true story, describes Mary’s battle to be believed.
Extraordinary Women (first published in 1928) is the second of Compton Mackenzie's satirical novels set on the island of Capri (fictionalised as Sirene), a tolerant island that was a haven...
30 de nov. de 2022 · The thriving community of lesbian expatriates on Capri during the First World War was the subject of one of Mackenzie’s best works, Extraordinary Women (1928), the first novel about lesbians to be sold in British bookshops.
Extraordinary Women: Women in Time, Women Without It ( Spanish: Mujeres extraordinarias: Mujeres en el tiempo, mujeres sin tiempo ); is a 2009 Dominican documentary feature by director Yildalina Tatem Brache, where she captures the lives of six influential women from the Dominican Republic. [1] [2] [3]
These are the stories of four under-valued women who achieved extraordinary things. Colette wrote a series of successful novels, but her husband published them under his own name. Beautiful film star Hedy Lamarr invented a secret communication system, later adopted by the US Navy. But originally, her invention had been rejected and she was told to ‘stick to entertaining’. Ángela Ruiz ...
