Andrea Stuart
Andrea Stuart was born and raised in the Caribbean and US. She studied English at the University of East Anglia and French at the Sorbonne. Her first book, Showgirls (Jonathan Cape, 1996), a collective biography of showgirls from Colette, to Marlene Dietrich to Madonna, was adapted into a two-part documentary for the Discovery Channel in 1998 and has since inspired a theatrical show, a contemporary dance piece and a number of burlesque performances. Her second book, The Rose of Martinique: A Biography of Napoleon’s Josephine (Macmillan, 2003) was translated into several languages and won the Enid McLeod Literary Prize in 2004. She is writer in Residence at Kingston University and teaches at the Faber Academy.
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Travels in Pornland
Andrea Stuart
‘I can easily recall my first brush with porn’
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Tourist
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‘My curiosity about lesbianism was an accomplice of my feminism: a path that allowed me to be sexual and free.’
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Sugar in the Blood
Andrea Stuart
My earliest identifiable ancestor, George Ashby, was one of the many thousands of Englishmen who...