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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... Boston marriages , such as Sarah Orne Jewett and Annie Fields . During those years Wilkins produced what has generally been recognized as her best work , including A Humble Romance and Other Stories ( 1887 ) and A New England Nun and ...
... Boston marriages , such as Sarah Orne Jewett and Annie Fields . During those years Wilkins produced what has generally been recognized as her best work , including A Humble Romance and Other Stories ( 1887 ) and A New England Nun and ...
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... Boston marriage with Annie Fields , which began around 1880 and lasted for almost three decades , until Jewett's death in 1909. Jewett commemorated their first an- niversary in an 1881 letter : " Oh my darling , I had forgotten that we ...
... Boston marriage with Annie Fields , which began around 1880 and lasted for almost three decades , until Jewett's death in 1909. Jewett commemorated their first an- niversary in an 1881 letter : " Oh my darling , I had forgotten that we ...
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... Boston marriage as Jewett lived it . The central characters are of different classes , and Boston marriages gen- erally involved women of the same class , both with economic wherewithal . However , the story shows Jewett's views of the ...
... Boston marriage as Jewett lived it . The central characters are of different classes , and Boston marriages gen- erally involved women of the same class , both with economic wherewithal . However , the story shows Jewett's views of the ...
Contents
MENS WRITING ON ROMANTIC FRIENDSHIP | 9 |
WOMENS WRITING ON ROMANTIC FRIENDSHIP | 17 |
Aphra Behn | 24 |
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