ext_48490 ([identity profile] donutgirl.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] martasfic 2014-09-09 03:19 am (UTC)

Taming a Tartar is probably the best. I read it in a collection of her shorts... actually, since I wrote a paper on it, I should have the complete bibliographic info on my hard drive, haha.

Stern, Madeleine B., ed. The Feminist Alcott. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1996. Print.

While in many of Alcott's pseudonymous writings, women strive for power but are ultimately punished for it, "Taming a Tartar" is a notable exception. In this story, the heroine, Sybil, goes to work for a sickly Russian princess and becomes captivated by her wild, tyrannical, occasionally violent brother. The rest, though it was published four years before Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs, works along the same lines as that erotic fantasy of female domination, but this time from a woman's perspective.

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