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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... Miss Egert , with a quick movement , stood in front of Cynthia , one hand extended . Cynthia crouched away from the hand . " Miss Egert , " her voice came out in a desperate little gasp- “ I can't come down any more . I can't take any ...
... Miss Egert , with a quick movement , stood in front of Cynthia , one hand extended . Cynthia crouched away from the hand . " Miss Egert , " her voice came out in a desperate little gasp- “ I can't come down any more . I can't take any ...
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... Miss Furr and Miss Skeene , " a story about two of Gertrude and Al- ice's lesbian friends , Miss Mars and Miss Squires , appeared in Vanity Fair magazine in 1923. Few heterosexuals in the 1920s understood that the term " gay " was a ...
... Miss Furr and Miss Skeene , " a story about two of Gertrude and Al- ice's lesbian friends , Miss Mars and Miss Squires , appeared in Vanity Fair magazine in 1923. Few heterosexuals in the 1920s understood that the term " gay " was a ...
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... Miss Furr and Miss Skeene sat with them , and there were other men who were not dark men and they sat with Miss Furr and Miss Skeene and Miss Furr and Miss Skeene sat with them . Miss Furr and Miss Skeene went with them and they went with ...
... Miss Furr and Miss Skeene sat with them , and there were other men who were not dark men and they sat with Miss Furr and Miss Skeene and Miss Furr and Miss Skeene sat with them . Miss Furr and Miss Skeene went with them and they went with ...
Contents
MENS WRITING ON ROMANTIC FRIENDSHIP | 9 |
WOMENS WRITING ON ROMANTIC FRIENDSHIP | 17 |
To My Excellent Lucasia on Our Friendship | 23 |
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