Poems Between Women: Four Centuries of Love, Romantic Friendship, and Desire

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Emma Donoghue
Columbia University Press, 1997 - Education - 209 pages

With poems in English by over one hundred female poets -- American, English, Scottish, Canadian, South African, Indian, Irish, and Australian -- this is an extraordinary collection that pays homage to four centuries of women's desires, friendships, and expressions of love. The collection is testimony to the rich tradition of female verse and the timelessness of love and creativity.

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Contents

Acknowledgements
xxi
Ursula Bethell
xl
Aphra Behn
4
Anne Killigrew II
11
Elizabeth Thomas
17
Charlotte Lennox
25
Elizabeth Hands
28
Eliza Robertson
34
Emily Hickey
79
Sophie Jewett
96
Gertrude Stein
112
Marjorie Pickthall
118
Katherine Mansfield
124
Dorothy Wellesley Duchess of Wellington
125
Ruth Pitter
132
Dorothy Livesay
138

Mary Matilda Betham
41
Mary Russell Mitford
44
Frances Kemble
50
Emily Brontė
56
Bessie Rayner Parkes
63
Helen Hunt Jackson
70
Rosa Mulholland Lady Gilbert
77
Daphne Marlatt
151
Mary Dorcey
157
Ali Smith
163
Biographical Notes
165
Permissions
195
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About the author (1997)

Emma Donoghue was born on October 24, 1969 in Dublin, Ireland. She received her BA degree from the University College Dublin and PhD in English from University of Cambridge. Her first novel was Stir. Her next novel was Hood which won the 1997 American Library Association's Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Book Award for Literature. Her novel Slammerkin was a finalist in the 2001 Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Fiction. The Sealed Letter, published in 2008, is a work of historical fiction. This work was the joint winner of the 2009 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction. She continued writing several award winning novels including Room which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in September 2010. Some of her other works include Astray, Three and a Half Deaths, and Frog Music.

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