Narrative

Focus on Lili playing cards while smoking a cigarette.
Gerda Wegener, In the Summer Heat (Lili), 1924

This section of the archive contains an overview of the publication history of Elbe's narrative, the first full-length and well-documented narrative of what was called at the time "genital transformation surgery"; encoded transcriptions of each edition; and, a collation viewer where the various editions can be compared, with links to page images in the reading views.