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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Amazing and touching
This book was simply amazing. It took about 2 months to get to me, but was very much worth the wait. I started, and could not put it down. I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys reading books with incredible, strong female characters. The emotions came through so clearly it was as if I was being told the tale from Lela herself.
Published on January 23, 2005 by Allison Tyler
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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An early lesbian classic
Basis of the classic German film "Maedchen in Uniform", "The Child Manuela" chronicles the tragic life of the young girl Manuela. Her early life is almost idyllic, until the loss of her beloved mother. Manuela latches onto the mother of a boy who's courting her, and is devastated when she's sent off to boarding school by her father. Soon Manuela becomes enamored with one...
Published on March 14, 2003 by blissengine
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
An early lesbian classic,
This review is from: The Child Manuela: The Novel of Maedchen in Uniform (Hardcover)
Basis of the classic German film "Maedchen in Uniform", "The Child Manuela" chronicles the tragic life of the young girl Manuela. Her early life is almost idyllic, until the loss of her beloved mother. Manuela latches onto the mother of a boy who's courting her, and is devastated when she's sent off to boarding school by her father. Soon Manuela becomes enamored with one of the instructors, Fräulein von Bernburg, and finds her true nature awakening. Playing the male part in a school play gives Manuela strength to declare her love for Fräulein von Bernburg, but this brings about her downfall. The movie "Maedchen in Uniform" centers only on the events at the boarding school, and actually has a different ending. One of the earliest of the lesbian schoolgirl novels, "The Child Manuela" is one of the 100 Best Gay and Lesbian Novels, as selected by the Publishing Triangle.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Amazing and touching,
By Allison Tyler "Allikat" (Annapolis, MD) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Child Manuela: The Novel of Maedchen in Uniform (Hardcover)
This book was simply amazing. It took about 2 months to get to me, but was very much worth the wait. I started, and could not put it down. I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys reading books with incredible, strong female characters. The emotions came through so clearly it was as if I was being told the tale from Lela herself.
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The Child Manuela: The Novel of Maedchen in Uniform by Christa Winsloe (Hardcover - June 1975)
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