Rudnick

The Suppressed Memoirs Of Mabel Dodge Luhan Rudnick

Reveals the extraordinary impact of syphilis on Western culture - on memoir, art, literature, the formation of modern women's identities, and the formation of psychoanalysis. The revelations are embedded in Luhan's memoirs, of which she wrote some 20 volumes, four of which she published during the 1930s. Her unpublished memoirs include her account of her multiple exposures to VD and what happened when she contracted syphilis from her fourth husband, Antonio Lujan.