Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the PresentLillian Faderman Lesbian and bisexual literature over the past four centuries, tracing the evolution of the genre from romantic friendship, through the exotic and evil, to the explicitly sexual. An example of exotic and evil is provided by Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 vampire novella, Carmilla. By the author of Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers. |
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... dear Emily - through these cold winter days , when I cannot come to see you , that I cannot forbear writing the least little bit of a note - to put you in mind of me ; perhaps it will make you laugh — it may be foolish in me but I love ...
... dear Emily - through these cold winter days , when I cannot come to see you , that I cannot forbear writing the least little bit of a note - to put you in mind of me ; perhaps it will make you laugh — it may be foolish in me but I love ...
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... dear ones fewer and fewer , every day that you stay away - I miss my biggest heart ; my own goes wandering round , and calls for Susie - Friends are too dear to sunder , Oh they are far too few , and how soon they will go away where you ...
... dear ones fewer and fewer , every day that you stay away - I miss my biggest heart ; my own goes wandering round , and calls for Susie - Friends are too dear to sunder , Oh they are far too few , and how soon they will go away where you ...
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... dear friend , such as I myself would have scouted as incredible a few months since . " My father looked at him again , but this time not with a glance of suspicion - with an eye , rather , of keen intelligence and alarm . " The house of ...
... dear friend , such as I myself would have scouted as incredible a few months since . " My father looked at him again , but this time not with a glance of suspicion - with an eye , rather , of keen intelligence and alarm . " The house of ...
Contents
MENS WRITING ON ROMANTIC FRIENDSHIP | 9 |
WOMENS WRITING ON ROMANTIC FRIENDSHIP | 17 |
Aphra Behn | 24 |
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