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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... soon , till I could know how to feel , and get my thoughts ready for it . Why , Susie , it seems to me as if my absent Lover was coming home so soon - and my heart must be so busy , making ready for him . While the minister this morning ...
... soon , till I could know how to feel , and get my thoughts ready for it . Why , Susie , it seems to me as if my absent Lover was coming home so soon - and my heart must be so busy , making ready for him . While the minister this morning ...
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... soon provided herself with linnen , and thence went to Totness , where she assumed the title of a doctor of physic , and took lodgings in the house of one Mrs. Baytree . Here she soon became acquainted with a young girl , the daughter ...
... soon provided herself with linnen , and thence went to Totness , where she assumed the title of a doctor of physic , and took lodgings in the house of one Mrs. Baytree . Here she soon became acquainted with a young girl , the daughter ...
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... soon learned the cause of my terror . I insisted on our knocking at Carmilla's door . Our knocking was un- answered . It soon became a pounding and an uproar . We shrieked her name , but all was vain . We all grew frightened , for the ...
... soon learned the cause of my terror . I insisted on our knocking at Carmilla's door . Our knocking was un- answered . It soon became a pounding and an uproar . We shrieked her name , but all was vain . We all grew frightened , for the ...
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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