Olivia throws herself into love whole-heartedly, without having the key of what this love is. But no matter what the blur, love is there, real, passionate. This love might be chaste, except for a few hand rubs and rare hugs. Two lovers women run it: Miss Julie, - in real life Marie SouvestreĪs soon as she arrived in this small boarding school which accommodated no more than thirty-five teenager girls, Olivia fell in love with Miss Julie, who did not seem indifferent to the young In this autobiographical novel, Olivia, a sixteen-year-old English girl, is sent to a renowned French boarding school to study. Why? Because it is a disguised autobiography and its subject is the author's love for her female teacher. This novel caused a scandal when it was published. In my 1949 edition, the name Dorothy Bussy is not even mentioned. She has it published under the pseudonym Olivia. I made researches to know who Olivia could be and I found: Dorothy Bussy (1865-1960), English, published three works, only one of them wasĪ novel: Olivia in 1949. I read Olivia, by Olivia in its very first 1949 edition.
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