160 pp. Red and black cloth imitating silk, gilt titles. Translated from the original French into English by Roger Senhouse, with seven collotype plates from dry-point etchings by Philippe Jullian. Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873 - 1954), one of the most popular and best loved of modern French writers, became known simply as Colette when she married in 1893. Her husband, a Parisian man-about-town and the son of a major publisher, made use of her literary talents by publishing her first several novels under his own name - his only changes, evidently, being to make them more prurient. But eventually she broke free of this unhappy marriage and took flight on her own, as a fiction writer, a journalist, and an actress. By the time Cheri was published in 1920, Colette had become well known both as a writer and as a personality and was entering a period of rich personal growth and happiness.
