Love and the Dragonfly is Coverley's unpublished print novel completed in 1973. As a multivocal work, it presages the artist's approach to narrative that found its way to her later hypertext novels, Califia (2000) and Egypt: The Book of Going Forth by Day (2006).
The manuscript, 350 pages in length, is divided into 20 chapters. Themes explored in the novel follow those the artist pursued during her long writing career: women's mythology, sexuality, and power.
1 COPY IN THE NEXT
The Marjorie C. Luesebrink Collection
An unpublished copy.
The manuscript was found among Luesebrink's papers and books at her home. It and other materials belonging to the artist's output were donated to The NEXT by her two sons, Marc and Eric Luesebrink.