french literature
Translating Desire: Queer Affect, Autobiography, and Involuntary Love in Dorothy Strachey’s Olivia
Dorothy Strachey, the older sister of the biographer and essayist Lytton Strachey, and of the psychoanalyst and translator of Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, published her only novel, Olivia, in 1949, under the pseudonym of “Olivia.”[1]