Characters in this book (stereotypes all, according to Paul Bailey) include Haydn
, Mozart
(a little, white-faced genius), Casanova
(possessor of a strange, twisted smile), and the Young Pretender
.
qtd. in
Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin), 2001.
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Textual Production
Violet Hunt
VH
's and Agnes Farley
's two-volume translation and abridgement of Casanova
's memoirs appeared, originally without crediting the translators.
Rogers, John H., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 162. Gale Research, 1996.