The Madonna of Seven Moons

Lawrence, Margery

Published by London Hurst & Blackett, LTD. 1932, 1932

About this Item

Fourth impression. 350 pages + 4 of ads. Undated but circa 1932. Author's copy, inscribed to the front endpaper: "Margery Lawrence Published 1931 Sixth book. (Novel)". The book is bound in hard-wearing dark blue cloth with matching blue top-stain to the text block and a brown faux leather spine label, lettered and decorated in gilt. The binding is firm, the cloth is lightly rubbed and marked, the spine a little faded. The text block is slightly foxed, marked and age toned. An unusual novel, based apparently on a true story and set in contemporary fascist Italy, about a woman with a dual personality caused by her traumatic first experiences of sex as a teenager, being raped by her husband on their wedding night, after witnessing her father in a passionate, adulterous embrace with a local peasant woman in a hut in the woods. As an adult she spends half her time living a prudish, modest, religiously devoted, highly respectable existence, and the other half as the passionate, violent lover of the leader of a gang of thieves, conscious in neither state of her other self until the reappearance of her teenage daughter causes the two to merge. It was successfully adapted for film in 1945, directed by Arthur Crabtree. Seller Inventory # 6620

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Madonna of Seven Moons

Publisher: London Hurst & Blackett, LTD. 1932

Publication Date: 1932

Signed: Signed by Author(s)