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Queer round the edges: Mary Stewart’s post-war middlebrow fiction (cont’d)

By Amy Tooth Murphy May 7, 2014 LGBTQ 1 comment

Amy Tooth Murphy Part 2: The Case of the Vanishing Queen Regular readers may well be poised on the edge of their seats, awaiting the resolution of Tuesday’s nail-biting cliffhanger. When last we saw our middlebrow heroes, gruff butch, Marion Bradford, had met a grisly end at the bottom of […]

Queer round the edges: Mary Stewart’s post-war middlebrow fiction

By Amy Tooth Murphy May 6, 2014 LGBTQ 0 comments

Amy Tooth Murphy Part 1: The Case of the Disposable Butch Over the last few months, on the recommendation of a friend, I’ve been working my way through the novels of Mary Stewart, a British post-war novelist of middlebrow fiction. Stewart’s 1950s and 1960s back catalogue is made up of […]