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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... Vita Sackville - West ( 1892-1962 ) Vita Sackville - West suffered a hard penalty for not having been born male . Knole , her beloved family estate , the largest remaining private residence in England , had belonged to her ancestors for ...
... Vita Sackville - West ( 1892-1962 ) Vita Sackville - West suffered a hard penalty for not having been born male . Knole , her beloved family estate , the largest remaining private residence in England , had belonged to her ancestors for ...
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... Vita through four centuries and permitting her to alternate between being a man and being a woman while always re- maining the same person . By the time Vita was involved with Virginia Woolf her lesbian ... Vita Sackville-West's Journals.
... Vita through four centuries and permitting her to alternate between being a man and being a woman while always re- maining the same person . By the time Vita was involved with Virginia Woolf her lesbian ... Vita Sackville-West's Journals.
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... Vita Sackville - West's journals from Portrait of a Marriage by Nigel Nicolson . Reprinted with permission of Atheneum Publishers , an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Company and Weidenfeld & Nicholson . Copyright 1973 by Nigel Nicolson ...
... Vita Sackville - West's journals from Portrait of a Marriage by Nigel Nicolson . Reprinted with permission of Atheneum Publishers , an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Company and Weidenfeld & Nicholson . Copyright 1973 by Nigel Nicolson ...
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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