Other Fiction Margueritte, Victor: The Bachelor Girl. v1.0. July 2014

[forcheville]

"On 12 July 1922, the very day the French senate denied women the right to vote, the avant-garde novel La garçonne by Victor Margueritte (1866-1942) was published. It became a huge bestseller - approximately 600,000 copies were sold - and it caused quite an uproar. A year after its publication, more than 150 articles about the novel had been published. In short: the book caused a scandal. The story's main character Monique dresses like a boy, sports a bobbed haircut, smokes cigarettes, uses drugs and has lesbian mistresses. The book was said to be pornographic, and its socio-political subject matter was ill received: equality between men and women. The tumult it raised was so big that Victor Margueritte was cast out by the Légion d'Honneur. He was 'de-knighted'." - Koninklijke Bibliotheek

The 1923 English translation by Hugh Burnaby of La garçonne, was heavily expurgated for the English and American public.
The book was the first in a trilogy by Margueritte about the conditions of women in the modern world, as they appeared in the 1920s.


In this ebook edition the expurgated portions have been carefully restored from the French text, and translated in footnotes.
For more detail about the book see the Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bachelor_Girl_(novel)

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[AlexBell]

Greetings from Launceston, and thanks for the book