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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 ...
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- 1928
Extraordinary Women: Theme and Variations. Compton Mackenzie. 3.47. 60 ratings7 reviews. For a short time before the First World War, Compton Mackenzie lived on Capri, "island of pleasure" as it has been called. The stay was fruitful, resulting in two "romans à clef," Vestal Fire and Extraordinary Women, published in 1927 and 1928 respectively.
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30 nov 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 (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...
Extraordinary Women is Compton Mackenzie's twentieth novel. It is a satire set on the island of Sirene, a fictionalized version of the real island of Capri, and his second novel to be set in this location.
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4 mar 2020 · Compton Mackenzie’s 1928 novel Extraordinary Women has been critically neglected for ninety-one years since its publication. Although explicitly lesbian characters in novels were not a new invention, Mackenzie’s novel addresses lesbianism at a time when homosexuality was often viewed as dangerous and even seditious.
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