Girls’ schools and Gothic: inside the dark and dreamlike world of Swiss writer Fleur Jaeggy
Jaeggy writes powerfully of communities of adolescent girls: stagnant, hothouse worlds of spying and crushes.
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Jaeggy writes powerfully of communities of adolescent girls: stagnant, hothouse worlds of spying and crushes.
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