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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... marriage ) of a woman with whom she hoped to spend her life . The sonnets tell an impassioned story , from the anger at Honora , her " false friend , " for having betrayed her by desertion , to her horror at having learned that the married ...
... marriage ) of a woman with whom she hoped to spend her life . The sonnets tell an impassioned story , from the anger at Honora , her " false friend , " for having betrayed her by desertion , to her horror at having learned that the married ...
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... married couple not only continued , but greatly increased the fondness which they had conceived for each other , and poor Molly , from some stories she told among her acquaintances , the other young married women of the town , was ...
... married couple not only continued , but greatly increased the fondness which they had conceived for each other , and poor Molly , from some stories she told among her acquaintances , the other young married women of the town , was ...
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... married ? " " Yeah , I'll get married and have six children and wear an apron like my mother . Only my husband will be handsome . " " Who you gonna marry ? " " I don't know yet . " " Why don't you marry me ? I'm not handsome but I'm ...
... married ? " " Yeah , I'll get married and have six children and wear an apron like my mother . Only my husband will be handsome . " " Who you gonna marry ? " " I don't know yet . " " Why don't you marry me ? I'm not handsome but I'm ...
Contents
MENS WRITING ON ROMANTIC FRIENDSHIP | 9 |
WOMENS WRITING ON ROMANTIC FRIENDSHIP | 17 |
Aphra Behn | 24 |
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