The new edition of A Crown of Violets is now available through Headmistress Press and [edit—Amazon link redacted due to strike]! It incorporates new translations — this time, together with their originals! — that were not included in the previous volume.

Renée Vivien (née Pauline Mary Tarn, 1877-1909) was one of the first “out” lesbian writers of modern Western Europe, and probably the first lesbian translator of the fragments of Sappho.