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A review by 22inbloom
After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz
5.0
I did really enjoy this book, but can see why this book might not be for everyone.
Like fragments of Sapphos writing, it tells fragements of womens lives, mostly around italy, france and the uk. (not historically correct)
The writing was the most beautiful part and i also marked a lot of quotes, and here is one of my favourites:
"Thus Noel Pemberton Billing set about teaching all of England what was a clitoris. A clitoris was a kind of lesbian, he maintained; that is, Salomé of Sodom and Lesbia, being the Oriental regions of Germany, had indecently penetrated our noble land, thereby making Miss Allen Maud a Lesbianist;..."
Like fragments of Sapphos writing, it tells fragements of womens lives, mostly around italy, france and the uk. (not historically correct)
The writing was the most beautiful part and i also marked a lot of quotes, and here is one of my favourites:
"Thus Noel Pemberton Billing set about teaching all of England what was a clitoris. A clitoris was a kind of lesbian, he maintained; that is, Salomé of Sodom and Lesbia, being the Oriental regions of Germany, had indecently penetrated our noble land, thereby making Miss Allen Maud a Lesbianist;..."