A groundbreaking, passionate, and subtle story of first love, Olivia–based loosely on the author’s own life–was first published in under a pseudonym. It tells the story of Olivia, a sixteen-year-old girl who is sent from England to a Parisian finishing school to broaden her www.doorway.ru: · Olivia is a novel rooted in Strachey’s experience. Its simple plot follows Olivia, a British teenager from a well-to-do family, who is sent off to France for a ‘finishing year’ at a. Dorothy Bussy (née Strachey) was an English novelist and translator, close to the Bloomsbury Group. Olivia, originally published under a pseudonym, is her only novel/5.
In the introduction to her short autobiographical novel Olivia, the newly rereleased lesbian classic published anonymously by the Bloomsbury Group in , fifteen years after her friend André Gide's polite dismissal of its merits, Dorothy Strachey writes. This account of what happened to me during a year that I spent at school in France seems to me to fall into the shape of a story—a. Olivia by Dorothy Strachey. "I read Olivia many, many times, bought it for many of my friends, and consider it the inspiration for Call Me by Your Name." --André Aciman "Perfectly captures the breathless excitement of adolescent passion." --Sarah Waters, bestselling author of Fingersmith and Tipping the Velvet The classic novel about a. Died. . edit data. Dorothy Bussy (née Strachey) was an English novelist and translator, close to the Bloomsbury Group. Olivia, originally published under a pseudonym, is her only novel.
Olivia is a novel rooted in Strachey’s experience. Its simple plot follows Olivia, a British teenager from a well-to-do family, who is sent off to France for a ‘finishing year’ at a. Dorothy Bussy (née Strachey) was an English novelist and translator, close to the Bloomsbury Group. Olivia, originally published under a pseudonym, is her only novel. Dorothy Strachey and her famous brother, the writer Lytton Strachey, were prominent in the Bloomsbury group. Olivia is her only novel. The book is available through Amazon (also on Kindle), as well as Stanford Bookstore () Kepler’s in Menlo Park (), and Bell’s Books in Palo Alto ().
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