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  • Despised and Rejected

    by Rose Allatini ...
    By a forgotten writer who deserves to be revived, Despised and Rejected has a number of strong themes: opposition to war, acceptance of homosexuality, tolerance of others, awareness that 'it is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple, one must be woman-manly or man-womanly' (Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own). It is also a very well-written novel, and a page-turner. The book begins ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • Despised and Rejected

    by Rose Allatini ...
    Despised and Rejected by Rose Allatini (18901980) is everything we would like a Persephone book to be: by a forgotten writer who deserves to be revived and with strong themes: opposition to war, acceptance of homosexuality, tolerance of others, awareness that ‘it is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple, one must be woman-manly or man- womanly’ (A Room of One’s Own). And it is a very well ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Despised and Rejected

    Rose Allatini's novel of pacifism and forbidden feeling, prosecuted by the British government in 1918 and out of print for most of a century, with a new introduction on its suppression and on the woman its censors failed to see.Antoinette de Courcy has spent her life falling in love with women, though nobody has explained to her that this is unusual. At thirteen it was Miss Prescot, the melancholy ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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    Despised and Rejected

    by Rose Allatini ...
    Narrated by Christine Rendel ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 27 min

    Under the pseudonym A.T. Fitzroy, prolific author Rose Allatini wrote her 1918 novel Despised and Rejected against the backdrop of the First World War.Set in England slightly before and during the War, this powerful novel is considered by many an important landmark in the literature of pacifism and also early gay and lesbian literature. Its publication was risky and consequential for both the ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Despised and Rejected

    by Rose Allatini ...
    Narrated by Robyn Holdaway ...
    Series series The Persephone Collection

    Unabridged

    9 hours 16 min

    In the year leading up to the First World War, four people’s lives intertwine, only to be pulled apart. A landmark of gay and pacifist literature, Rose Allatini’s story foregrounding conscientious objectors and queer love amidst wartime turmoil was banned months after its publication.At a countryside hotel, guests watch an amateur play. One of the actors, Antoinette de Courcy, is infatuated with ... Read more

    $20.12 USD