![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Torrès to find her books canonical status peculiar. Tereska Torrès, a convent-educated French writer who quite by accident wrote Americas first lesbian pulp novel, died on Thursday at her home in Paris. Tereska Torrès, 92, Writer Of Lesbian Fiction, Dies It was also denounced by the House Select Committee on Current Pornographic Materials in 1952 as an example of how the paperback industry was promoting moral degeneracy.” But in spite of such effortsor perhaps, in part, because of themthe novel became a record-breaking bestseller and inspired a whole new genre: lesbian pulp. Womens Barracks was banned for obscenity in several states. But Womens Barracks is no ordinary war story.Īs the Blitz rains down over London, taboos are broken, affairs start and stop and hearts are won and lost. She arrived as a refugee in London and joined other exiles enlisting in Charles de Gaulles army, then stationed in Britain awaiting an invasion of their homeland by Allied forces. The novel is based on the real-life experiences of the author, Tereska Torres, who escaped from occupied France. Originally published in 1950, this account of life among female Free French soldiers in a London barracks during World War II sold four million copies in the United States alone and many more millions worldwide. ![]()
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