Priestess of Morphine : The Lost Writings of Marie-Madeleine in the Time of the Nazis - Softcover

Marie-Madeline

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1934170607 ISBN 13: 9781934170601

Publisher: Process, 2016

Synopsis

Marie-Madeleine is the pen name of a once-famous German Jewish lesbian writer whose sensuality and love for morphine was revealed in many of her bestselling books, originally released in the early twentieth century. Priestess of Morphine: The Lost Writings of Marie-Madeleine contains many of this fascinating woman's works, and also contains Stephen J. Gertz's foreword explaining why Marie-Madeleine has become a rediscovered heroine of lesbian and drug literature. Fascinating images from Marie-Madeleine's lost literature and career supplement this volume.

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Marie Madeleine: aka Baronness Von Puttkamer, 1881-1944. In her time, under the name of Marie Madeleine, she established a name for herself as a writer of unusually lyrical, stunningly sensual, shockingly erotic and hotly passionate poetry and prose. She enjoyed immense popularity during her lifetime, and her books were published in the thousands. But because she was considered a degenerate by the Nazis, most of them were destroyed. Ronald K. Siegel is a psychopharmacologist and curator of the RKS Library of Drug Literature holding the world's largest collection of Marie-Madeleine's work. Eric A. Bye has translated over 100 nonfiction books (French, German, Spanish) and is the first to translate Marie-Madeleine's lost work from both Fraktur (Old German blackletter typeface) and Sütterlin-Schrift (Old German handwriting) to English. Stephen J. Gertz is a life-long lover and collector of rare books who began his career in the trade in 1985 as a rare book scout and dealer.

Edition details

• Publisher: Process
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1934170607
• ISBN 13: 9781934170601
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 360