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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... heart with pining woe forlorn , " Thankless for much of good ? —what thousands , born To ceaseless toil beneath this wintry sky , Or to brave deathful oceans surging high , Or fell Disease's fever'd rage to mourn , How blest to them ...
... heart with pining woe forlorn , " Thankless for much of good ? —what thousands , born To ceaseless toil beneath this wintry sky , Or to brave deathful oceans surging high , Or fell Disease's fever'd rage to mourn , How blest to them ...
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... 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 and I cannot find them , dont let us forget these things , for their ...
... 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 and I cannot find them , dont let us forget these things , for their ...
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... heart's ease , A brow's grace soft as seas Seen through faint forest trees : A mouth , the lips apart , Like aspen - leaflets trembling in the breeze From her tempestuous heart . Such : and our souls so knit , I leave a page half - writ ...
... heart's ease , A brow's grace soft as seas Seen through faint forest trees : A mouth , the lips apart , Like aspen - leaflets trembling in the breeze From her tempestuous heart . Such : and our souls so knit , I leave a page half - writ ...
Contents
Y Jean Jacques Rousseau | 12 |
Katherine Fowler Philips | 17 |
To My Excellent Lucasia on Our Friendship | 23 |
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