List of illustrations The Editor List of Contributors Acknowledgements Preface Valentine Penrose - a reminiscence, Antony Penrose (Lee Miller Archives, Farley Farm, Sussex, UK) Introduction 'The World Itself Stretches': Valentine Penrose, Beginnings, and Moons at Midday, Felicity Gee (University of Exeter, UK) 1. Framing the Voyage: Valentine Penrose, India, and the Geo-poetical, Felicity Gee (University of Exeter, UK) 2. Architecture of an OEuvre: Castles and Creative Constructsin the Work of Valentine Penrose, Karen L. Humphreys (Trinity College, Connecticut, USA) 3. Valentine Penrose: An Archivist's Memoir, Fiona Menzies (Archivist, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK) 4. Fleeing the Heterosexual Norm: Gothic Tropes and Illicit Lesbianism in Martha's Opera (1946), Beth Kearney (University of Queensland, Australia) 5. Valentine Penrose's Collages: Myth and Metamorphosis as Visual Explorations of Identity, Caterina Caputo (Università Iuav di Venezia, Italy) 6. Valentine Penrose, the Dark Star of Surrealism: Letters from the Roland Penrose Archive and Fondo Westerdahl, María Ángeles Aléman Gómez (Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain) 7.

Europe, 'bleeding out its life': Valentine Penrose's Wars, Felicity Gee (University of Exeter, UK) Chapter 8: Sapphic Surrealism: Valentine Penrose's Dons des féminines, Rachel Silveri (Assistant Professor, University of Florida, USA) Chapter 9: Gothic Nature, Vampirism and the Power of the Moon: Valentine Penrose's The Bloody Countess as site of queer, feminist protest, Tor Scott (University of Edinburgh, UK) Vignette: A Botanical Fire of Love, Maria Lusitano Vignette: I met Valentine at Farley Farm, Penny Slinger Valentine for Valentine Vignette: Of Penrose and a Particular Kind of Stone, E.C. Belli Coda: Valentine Penrose's Futures: A Clairvoyant Relevance , Felicity Gee (University of Exeter, UK) Index.