Violette Leduc
Birth date: April 07, 1907
Died: May 28, 1972
Violette Leduc's Books
Foreword--The Lady and the Little Fox Fur
In the mid-1950s, Violette Leduc wrote a novel called Ravages. The first hundred and fifty pages comprised a semi-autobiographical depiction of two schoolgirls in a torrid lesbian relationship, which Leduc said she hoped would be ‘no more shocking than Mme Bloom’. Yes they said Yes it is more shocki...