On this day in ...... 1907 (105 years ago today), Anne Desclos (left) was born in Rochefort, France. Educated at the Sorbonne, she worked 1st as a journalist and then at Gallimard publishing house, where she adopted one of her pen names, Dominique Aury. She translated into French English-language authors including Virginia Woolf and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Reacting to the contention of her employer/lover that women could not write erotic novels, under the pseudonym Pauline Réage she penned Story of O (1954), which sparked an obscenity prosecution. (photo credit) Declos/Aury/Réage, who was named a Chevalier of France's Legion d'Honneur, died in 1998.
(Prior September 23 posts are here, here, here, here, and here.)
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