Kryzhanovskaia [Rochester], Vera Ivanovna (1857 - 1925)	Tsaritsa Khatsu. Roman. [Riga,] Izdatel´stvo 'Akademiia', [ca.1928] 156, [4 p.]	€125

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8 vo, attractive 3/4 linen custom made binding at Atelier Christina Finnberg: Restaurierung:Bücher- Einband Papier/Sweden. Only high quality acid - free material used. Original covers in the stile of 'pulp fiction' covers by unknown artist preserved. Four page list of 'Akademia' publications preserved Reissue of 1894 edition. 'The French Decadent author Rachilde (real name Marguerite Eymery) (1860-1953) had a now-obscure Russian contemporary, the prolific novelist and Spiritualist Vera Kryzhanovskaia-Rochester (1861-1925). Both women claimed that their novels were dictated to them during Spiritualist séances via automatic writing; they subsequently published numerous sensational novels under the names of their spirit guides. [...] this work examines how the phenomenon of spirit authorship in both writers’ work subverted contemporary Spiritualist and feminist discourses. It re-reads their fiction as an interrogation not only of historical archetypes of gender but of the nature of female authorship at the fin de siècle.' -- Muireann Maguire See: Muireann Maguire Ghostwritten: Reading Spiritualism and Feminism in the Works of Rachilde and Vera Kryzhanovskaia-Rochester; Seidel-Dreffke, Björn. Die russische Literatur Ende des 19. und zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts und die Theosophie E. P. Blavatskajas. Frankfurt am Main, 2004 Seidel-Dreffke, Björn. - Frankfurt am Main : Haag und Herchen, 2004