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| | glbtq >> literature >> Renault, Mary |
 | | Renault was born Eileen Mary Challans in London, September 4, 1905, daughter of Frank Challans, a physician, and Clementine (Baxter) Challans. |
 | | Renault's first novel, Purposes of Love, was published in 1939 and like the next five was based more or less directly on her nursing and hospital experience. |
 | | Renault's first five novels have the trappings of "nurse romances" but go beyond the norm of that formulaic genre in their shrewdness of observation and their submerged hints of lesbian relationships. |
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