![]() ![]() But as she tells us many times, she is 33, so she feels her clock is ticking. They exchange letters and she starts to weigh his words: “This is what I want for us…” Her earlier experience tells her this will only last a few years this is France around 1900 - all well-off married men take a mistress after a few years of marriage. She goes on the road for a 40-day show tour without him and promises to give him her answer when she returns. She’s fond of him, maybe even in love with him, and she’s tempted. ![]() He’s unmarried, persistent, very well off, good-enough looking and he loves her and wants to marry her. Now she is independent and really loves her work as an actress, mime and dancer (like Colette). Still, she stayed with him for eight years. She was married to an artist who beat her and who spent most of his time bedding other women. So our main character is a 33-year old woman, footloose at the moment. In addition to being an author, Colette was a stage performer – actress, mime and dancer and that time of her life informs this book, considered an early feminist novel. ![]() (There’s a word for that: mononymous.) And long before gay rights, Collette, who was bisexual, flaunted her numerous lesbian affairs. Long before Cher and Madonna thought they invented “first names only,” there was Colette (1873-1954). ![]()
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