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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Page 85
... t have it nohow - I couldn't - I couldn't , Mis ' Dunbar . Seemed as if it would kill me to think of it . I couldn't have her likin ' anybody else , an ' gittin ' married . You don't know what I'd been through . All my own folks had ...
... t have it nohow - I couldn't - I couldn't , Mis ' Dunbar . Seemed as if it would kill me to think of it . I couldn't have her likin ' anybody else , an ' gittin ' married . You don't know what I'd been through . All my own folks had ...
Page 557
... don't matter what anybody says . Besides Leroy and I are running away to be famous actors . We'll have lots of money and clothes and we can do what we want . Nobody dares tell you what to do if you're famous . Now ain't that a lot ...
... don't matter what anybody says . Besides Leroy and I are running away to be famous actors . We'll have lots of money and clothes and we can do what we want . Nobody dares tell you what to do if you're famous . Now ain't that a lot ...
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... don't be so dramatic , Donna . People in Lil's condition just don't keel over suddenly . She'll have adequate warning and so will we . RAE : I saw them walking on the beach this morning . Lil looked fine , her color's good . And I don't ...
... don't be so dramatic , Donna . People in Lil's condition just don't keel over suddenly . She'll have adequate warning and so will we . RAE : I saw them walking on the beach this morning . Lil looked fine , her color's good . And I don't ...
Contents
MENS WRITING ON ROMANTIC FRIENDSHIP | 9 |
WOMENS WRITING ON ROMANTIC FRIENDSHIP | 17 |
Aphra Behn | 24 |
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