Poems Between Women: Four Centuries of Love, Romantic Friendship, and DesireEmma Donoghue 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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... 38 Irregular Verses 38 Mary Matilda Betham 4I In a Letter to A. R. C. on Her Wishing to be Called Anna 41 Sydney Owenson , Lady Morgan 42 Fragment III 42 Mary Russell Mitford 44 Written in a Blank - Paper Contents xi.
... 38 Irregular Verses 38 Mary Matilda Betham 4I In a Letter to A. R. C. on Her Wishing to be Called Anna 41 Sydney Owenson , Lady Morgan 42 Fragment III 42 Mary Russell Mitford 44 Written in a Blank - Paper Contents xi.
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... Written in a Blank - Paper Book Given to the Author by a Friend 44 Dorothea Primrose Campbell 45 To Miss Sophia Headle 45 Caroline Clive 46 The Mosel 46 Elizabeth Barrett Browning 49 To George Sand 49 Frances Kemble 50 A Noonday Vision ...
... Written in a Blank - Paper Book Given to the Author by a Friend 44 Dorothea Primrose Campbell 45 To Miss Sophia Headle 45 Caroline Clive 46 The Mosel 46 Elizabeth Barrett Browning 49 To George Sand 49 Frances Kemble 50 A Noonday Vision ...
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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 Brontë | 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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References to this book
Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain Tracy C. Davis,Ellen Donkin Limited preview - 1999 |