In 1951, the novel was filmed as Olivia, with the lesbian elements toned down, in France by Jacqueline Audry. Bussy's novel was translated into French and appeared in France with an introduction by Rosamond Lehmann.
It may also owe something to Colette's novel Claudine at School (1900).
As well as drawing on her own experiences in the schools of Marie Souvestre, the novel's theme probably owes much to Bussy's viewing of the 1931 German film Mädchen in Uniform, that had been distributed in England before the Second World War. Forster.īussy anonymously published one novel, Olivia, in 1949, printed by the Hogarth Press, the publishing house founded by Leonard and Virginia Woolf, in which lesbian loves get entangled in the emotional and sexually charged atmosphere of erotic pedagogy in a girls' school. She became friends with Charles Mauron, the lover of E.M. The family drama "shook the regime of Lancaster Gate to its foundations" (Holroyd), and, despite the silent disapprobation of the older Stracheys, Dorothy remained determined to marry him with what her brother Lytton later called "extraordinary courage".ĭorothy was bisexual and was involved in an affair with Lady Ottoline Morrell. Lady Strachey’s liberalism faltered at the sight of him actually cleaning up his plate with pieces of bread. He was five years younger, and the son of a shoemaker from the Jura town of Dole. In 1903, Dorothy (37) married the French painter Simon Bussy (1870–1954), who knew Matisse, and was on the fringes of the Bloomsbury circle. The sons and daughters of Sir Richard Strachey and Lady Macdonald.
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