Miss High-Heels

"Privately printed in Paris in 1931, 'Miss High-heels' tells the story of a hermaphroditic youth of eighteen, born into upper English society. At his step-sister's command, the narrator tells how he, Dennis Evelyn Beryl, was transformed into Denise, the 'Miss High-heels' of the title. Intended by his father to one day become a Cabinet Minster, or perhaps Prime Minister, Dennis falls into the clutches of his step-sister Helen when his father dies. Helen shrewdly discerns his secret fantasies and contrives to have Dennis sent to a girls' school for two yeares. There he is kept from mirrors and molded into a beautiful young woman. On his return to Beaumanoir, the family estate, he is dressed in the finest silks and satins, adorned with jewels, and shod in diamond-buckled satin slippers: a fetichiste-du-pied. Under the supervision of Miss Priscilla, the prim old-maid housekeeper, our Hero(ine) is initiated into the exquisite pleasures of being punished with canes, riding whips, birch rods--as well as the ingenious punishment of the glass boxes--and totally subjected to the whims of Helen and her lady friends. Eventually Dennis is brought to realize how much more pleasurable is his life as a young girl, and he willingly abandons his name, fortune, and life to the whims of Helen, who, as a final proof of his submission, forces him to write these memoirs"--Jacket.