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>Mary Renault

>In South Africa, Renault was able to write forthrightly about homosexual relationships for the first time. Her sympathetic treatment of love between men won her a wide gay readership, but it also led to rumours that Renault was really a gay man writing under a female pseudonym. Renault found these rumours amusing but also sought to distance herself from being labelled a "gay writer".
>Though Renault appreciated her gay following, she was uncomfortable with the "gay pride" movement that emerged in the 1970s after the Stonewall riots. Like Laurie Odell, the protagonist of The Charioteer, she was suspicious of identifying oneself primarily by one's sexual orientation. Late in her life she expressed hostility to the gay rights movement, troubling some of her fans.
>David Sweetman remarks in his biography of Renault that her novels generally portray mothers in a poor light and that, particularly in her later novels, this is extended to women in general. Her generally negative depiction of women has also been noted by the critic Carolyn Heilbrun.

based or cringe

>> No.19206819

>>19206793
>based or cringe
GET THE FUCK OFF MY BOARD YOU LITTLE CUNT

>> No.19206825

>>19206793
based

>> No.19206848

>>19206793
based
>>19206819
cringe
>>19206825
based

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>formerly closeted old British lesbian lashes out against the young’uns
>Pathologized and deeply self hating
>Based
You people all need a seat on a couch

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>>19207064
rolliflexes are for quirky girls

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>>19206793
The Charioteer is one of the best gay novels ever written. She was very based.

>> No.19207554

>>19206793
Mary Renault really treated most of her female characters like shit. But it’s fine because she had excellent prose.
She also dedicated her vagina as a shrine to ATG only i am allowed to do that

>> No.19207676

>>19207131
You need to fuck off. Only one trip fag is allowed at anytime on one thread

>> No.19209044

>>19207676
false