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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... Alice returned to the United States in 1934 to publicize Ger- trude's outrageously titled memoirs , The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas , Gertrude and her distinctive prose style were already so well known that New York headlines ...
... Alice returned to the United States in 1934 to publicize Ger- trude's outrageously titled memoirs , The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas , Gertrude and her distinctive prose style were already so well known that New York headlines ...
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... Alice remem- bered the first time she ever saw Harriet in the beer parlor wearing a prim gray suit , looking obviously out of place . Some cousin had brought her and left her for unrelated pleasures . After they'd talked a while , Alice ...
... Alice remem- bered the first time she ever saw Harriet in the beer parlor wearing a prim gray suit , looking obviously out of place . Some cousin had brought her and left her for unrelated pleasures . After they'd talked a while , Alice ...
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... Alice could hardly believe . It had been her resigned expectation that Harriet , whose soul had obviously not been at rest , would move up the stairs with her . She had not . If she haunted the tenants as she had haunted Alice , they ...
... Alice could hardly believe . It had been her resigned expectation that Harriet , whose soul had obviously not been at rest , would move up the stairs with her . She had not . If she haunted the tenants as she had haunted Alice , they ...
Contents
MENS WRITING ON ROMANTIC FRIENDSHIP | 9 |
WOMENS WRITING ON ROMANTIC FRIENDSHIP | 17 |
Aphra Behn | 24 |
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