Husbands and Wives
Terry Castle: Claude & Marcel, Gertrude & Alice, 13 December 2007
Don’t Kiss Me: The Art of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore
edited by Louise Downie.
Tate Gallery, 240 pp., £25, June 2006,1 59711 025 6 Show More
edited by Louise Downie.
Tate Gallery, 240 pp., £25, June 2006,
Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
by Janet Malcolm.
Yale, 229 pp., £16.99, October 2007,978 0 300 12551 1 Show More
by Janet Malcolm.
Yale, 229 pp., £16.99, October 2007,
“... and the niece of the celebrated Belle Epoque writer Marcel Schwob, dissipated friend to Valéry, Wilde and Colette. (Ah, the digressive pleasures of Wikipedia: Marcel’s death in 1905, according to H. Montgomery Hyde in The Love That Dared Not Speak Its Name, resulted from ‘a syphilitic tumour in the rectum, resulting from his relations with a ... ”