Written in the 1840s and published here for the first time, Julia
Ward Howe's novel about a hermaphrodite is unlike anything of its
time--or, in truth, of our own. Narrated by Laurence, who is raised
and lives as a man and is loved by men and women alike, yet can
respond to neither, this unconventional story explores the
realization "that fervent hearts must borrow the disguise of art,
if they would win the right to express, in any outward form, the
internal fire that consumes them." Laurence describes his
repudiation by his family, his involvement with an attractive
widow, his subsequent wanderings and eventual attachment to a
sixteen-year-old boy, his own tutelage by a Roman nobleman and his
sisters, and his ultimate reunion with his early love. His is a
story unique in nineteenth-century American letters, at once a
remarkable reflection of a largely hidden inner life and a richly
imagined tale of coming-of-age at odds with one's culture.
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