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In one review, it was said that this could be a companion book to Woolf’s Orlando. I see it as an ode to the women writers of the fin de Siècle, celebrating their beautiful melange of freedom, of hedonism, of the lavish lifestyles among the rich and their artistic pals, the blossoming of artistic and literary creativity and the bursting of sexual boundaries among women.

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Drips with fin de siècle, Paris, Rome, Venice, Lesbos. Women translating Greek & Latin finding themselves & each other. Ordinary heroines imagined with the likes of Sarah Bernhart, Gertrude Stein. Empowerment and love motifs and threads throughout connect the characters in startlingly clever ways.