The English Governess

A classic of Canadian erotica, this is the original restored edition of the flagellation story Glassco crafted for the notorious Paris publisher Maurice Girodias and his Olympia Press.

John Glassco (1909-1981) came from an established Montréal family, and lived the better part of his life near the village of Foster in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. He was a distinguished poet, novelist, essayist and translator—the Glassco prize for translation was named after him. His works include the widely acclaimed *Memoirs of Montparnasse* (1970), *A Point of Sky* (1964), *The Fatal Woman* (1974) and *Selected Poems* (1971) for which he won the Governor General’s Award.

Michael Gnorowski, who introduces *The English Governess*, knew Glassco for many years. He has recently published a new edition of Glassco’s Selected Poems with notes and an introduction, 1997, and edited Glassco’s *Memoirs of Montparnasse* with an introduction and annotation for Oxford University Press, 1995.