Daisy Chains
Emma Hogan: Sappho 1900, 20 May 2021
No Modernism without Lesbians
by Diana Souhami.
Head of Zeus, 464 pp., £9.99, February,978 1 78669 487 4 Show More
by Diana Souhami.
Head of Zeus, 464 pp., £9.99, February,
“... Sackville-West. They were together for a decade. ‘Princess Winnie taught Violet discretion,’ Harold Acton wrote. ‘It was rumoured with a whip.’But unlike Singer or Smyth, who was laughed at for wearing an evening dress hitched up with safety pins and using toilet roll to blow her nose, Souhami’s women are rarely figures of fun. They have ... ”