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Historical Fiction and Erotic Fiction Author
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Sarah Line Letellier. Writing a novel about Anais Nin and Colette. Award winning author of historical fiction and erotic fiction.
Recent Posts
The Pure and the Impure — Colette in drag
I’m looking at a famous, gorgeous photograph of Colette in drag. She is very debonair with her cropped hair, and wears a black jacket and trousers, and silk tie. She has a finger in the pocket of her striped waistcoat (is she being suggestive,...
Colette — how far would she go to shock the bourgeoisie?
Colette’s lover from 1905 to 1911 was Mathilde de Morny, the Marquise of Belboeuf (often known as Missy). It’s interesting how many of Colette’s numerous biographers list only her liaisons with men, simply ignoring her long-term, live-in relat...
Review of Chéri — the film
Two of my favourite Colette novels, Chéri and La fin de Chéri, have been made into a sumptuous, lavish film. I couldn’t wait to see it! Colette wrote the novels — novellas, really — in the 1920s, but they are set in the dazzling, glorious day...
Anaïs Nin and Colette on YouTube
A couple of friends came over and videoed me reading aloud from my novel, Nights in Paris. One video shows me reading from The Slave of Bracelets, one of my chapters about Anaïs Nin. In the other video, I read from The Silver Stopper, one of my chap...
Polaire répond! — Polaire replies!
In my last post, I replied to a comment by “Polaire” (not the original Polaire, obviously!… but the owner of a wonderful website, Polaire-1900), and we discussed our opposing theories of whether Polaire was one of Colette’s lo...
Letter to Polaire (were Polaire and Colette really lovers?)
Hi Polaire! (I searched for your name on your site, but I couldn’t find it! So, since your email address is Polaire…) Congratulations on your site (http://www.polaire-1900.com/), it’s beautiful. So sorry you had difficulties posting your messag...

