I like a book that can put its point in four outrageous words and use it as its title. Diana Souhami might be right. Without the women her book is devoted to, literary modernism would have looked very different. A consciously new approach to writing met a body of women who were being heard for the first time; the results were compelling.
Philip Hensher
The cult of Sappho in interwar Paris
Encouraged by the openness of the French, literary-minded lesbians were drawn to the capital, where they soon made a stir in modernist circles
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