Lucie Delarue-Mardrus was a prolific and significant writer, despite the fact that previous scholars viewed her primarily as the wife of the scholar and translator Joseph-Charles Mardrus.Anna Livia is the editor/translator of A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney, and the author of four novels, including Relatively Norma and Minimax, and two collections of short stories.

The Angel and the Perverts, admirably translated by Anna Livia, offers a glimpse into the subculture of gender ambiguity that was the origin point for today's lesbian and gay communities. As the question concerning the relationship between homosexuality and gender difference is once again being raised, Delarue-Mardrus' novel no longer seems an anachronistic apologia from a more closeted era, but an intriguing exploration of identities that take gender difference, rather than sexuality, as their starting point. - Will Roscoe,author of The Zuni Man-Woman

Lucie Delarue-Mardrus was a prolific and significant writer, despite the fact that previous scholars viewed her primarily as the wife of the scholar and translator Joseph-Charles Mardrus.Anna Livia is the editor/translator of A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney, and the author of four novels, including Relatively Norma and Minimax, and two collections of short stories.

The Angel and the Perverts, admirably translated by Anna Livia, offers a glimpse into the subculture of gender ambiguity that was the origin point for today's lesbian and gay communities. As the question concerning the relationship between homosexuality and gender difference is once again being raised, Delarue-Mardrus' novel no longer seems an anachronistic apologia from a more closeted era, but an intriguing exploration of identities that take gender difference, rather than sexuality, as their starting point. - Will Roscoe,author of The Zuni Man-Woman

Lucie Delarue-Mardrus was a prolific and significant writer, despite the fact that previous scholars viewed her primarily as the wife of the scholar and translator Joseph-Charles Mardrus.Anna Livia is the editor/translator of A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney, and the author of four novels, including Relatively Norma and Minimax, and two collections of short stories.

The Angel and the Perverts, admirably translated by Anna Livia, offers a glimpse into the subculture of gender ambiguity that was the origin point for today's lesbian and gay communities. As the question concerning the relationship between homosexuality and gender difference is once again being raised, Delarue-Mardrus' novel no longer seems an anachronistic apologia from a more closeted era, but an intriguing exploration of identities that take gender difference, rather than sexuality, as their starting point. - Will Roscoe,author of The Zuni Man-Woman