Vestal Fire by Compton Mackenzie (.ePUB)(.AZW3)

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Vestal Fire by Compton Mackenzie (first published 1927)
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Overview: Sir Compton Mackenzie, OBE (born Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie, 17 January 1883 – 30 November 1972) was an English-born Scottish writer of fiction, biography, histories and a memoir, as well as a cultural commentator, raconteur and lifelong Scottish nationalist. He was one of the co-founders in 1928 of the Scottish National Party along with Hugh MacDiarmid, RB Cunninghame Graham and John MacCormick. He was knighted in 1952.
Between 1913 and 1920 he lived with his wife, Faith, on Capri at Villa Solitaria, and returned to visit in later years. This Italian island near Sorrento was known to be tolerant not just of foreigners in general, but of artists and homosexuals in particular. He became friends with the writer Somerset Maugham, a frequent visitor to the island. Faith had an affair with the Italian pianist Renata Borgatti, who was connected to Romaine Brooks. Although – and because – his wife was with him, Mackenzie bought himself a cottage in which to meet his boyfriends or to lend to friends for the same purpose.
Compton Mackenzie’s observations on the local life of the Italian islanders and foreign residents led to at least two novels, Vestal Fire (1927) (dedicated to John Ellingham Brooks) and Extraordinary Women (1928) (dedicated to Normam Douglas).
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics > LGBT > Italy > Gay > fictionalized memoir > roman à clef

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