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6 de jul. de 2022 · Sarah Bernhardt, Colette, Eileen Gray, Lina Poletti: these are just a few of the women (some famous, others hitherto unsung) sharing the pages of a novel as fierce as it is luminous. Lush and poetic, furious and funny, After Sappho celebrates the women and trailblazers of the past – and offers hope for our present, and our futures.
26 de ene. de 2023 · The Italian writer Lina Poletti provides an anchoring presence and is also the book's dedicatee. We follow her along a stone-skipping path from her lonely childhood, ...
When Lina Poletti and Sibilla Aleramo met in 1908, Poletti was a student of philosophy living in Ravenna. Both women shared a passion for education and feminism. Aleramo, born in 1876 as Rina Faccio, was, at the time of their meeting, seven years older than Poletti and already a
Lina Poletti. Lina Poletti, born Cordula Lina Poletti (1885-?)in Ravenna, was an Italian feminist, often described as being beautiful and rebellious, prone to wear men's clothing, and who is best known today for her lesbian affairs with writer Sibilla Aleramo and actress Eleonora Duse.In the book, "The Lesbian nell'italia the first twentieth", Poletti is credited with being one of the first ...
2 de ago. de 2022 · Selby Wynn Schwartz’s inventive, poetic reimagining of lives like those of Virginia Woolf and Sarah Bernhardt – against a backdrop of Sappho – has just been longlisted for the Booker Prize.
13 de jun. de 2023 · As a newborn, did the Italian writer, poet, and playwright Lina Poletti really “kick free of the blankets” at her christening? There’s no evidence that she did, nor evidence that she didn’t. Reading between the lines is embraced as a particularly queer practice in both books—that is, looking beyond the page.
31 de ene. de 2014 · Her lengthy list of lovers includes writer/prince Gabriele d’Annunzio and Italian feminist/cross dresser Lina Poletti. Eleonora's lesbian lover Lina Poletti. PAY YOUR OWN WAY. Eleonora shirked tradition at a time when many women relied on pocket money from their husbands.
