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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... lover , to write an answer , which nevertheless she determin'd should be so distant and cool , that the woman of the strictest virtue and modesty in England might have no reason to be asham'd of having writ it ; of which letter the ...
... lover , to write an answer , which nevertheless she determin'd should be so distant and cool , that the woman of the strictest virtue and modesty in England might have no reason to be asham'd of having writ it ; of which letter the ...
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... lover cooks me hot meals & washes up after Never arrives without flowers & only brings my favorites Dream lover has long fingers a patient playful tongue & thrives on five hours sleep a night She could play the harmonica weave pine ...
... lover cooks me hot meals & washes up after Never arrives without flowers & only brings my favorites Dream lover has long fingers a patient playful tongue & thrives on five hours sleep a night She could play the harmonica weave pine ...
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... lover's skill at mystery , how one day she was there , the next gone ; the woman with whom I lived for eight years but slept with less than one ; the lover who tied me to the foot of her bed when I didn't really want that but didn't ...
... lover's skill at mystery , how one day she was there , the next gone ; the woman with whom I lived for eight years but slept with less than one ; the lover who tied me to the foot of her bed when I didn't really want that but didn't ...
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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