![]() How Italy’s Anti-Mask Law Was Weaponized. ![]() Kenneth Williams Never Stopped Carrying On.Don Gorton, Boston Activist and G&LR Mainstay.Power Games Inhabit Guibert’s Last Novel.George Cecil Ives: Out Poet, Lover of Bosie.Inside Ukraine: An lgbtq Leader Speaks Out.In 1951, a French film was made of Olivia, directed by Jacqueline Audry. Indeed the book has been in and out of print since 1949. Thus both the main character and the book’s pseudonymous author bear the name of this deceased family member, though subsequent editions have identified Strachey as the author. Instead, the book was anonymously attributed to “Olivia.” An added dimension to the story is that Olivia was the name of a sister who died as a baby. She was in her eighties at the time of publication and did not publish it under her own name. Gide reportedly didn’t think much of the work, describing it as “not very engaging.” (But then, Gide had also dismissed Proust back in 1909.) This criticism wounded Strachey deeply, and she put the manuscript in the proverbial bottom drawer until 1948 or ’49, when she published the book with Leonard Woolf’s Hogarth Press. ![]() She translated his works into English and engaged in a lengthy correspondence with him over many years. ![]() Strachey was a very close friend of André Gide. ![]()
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