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 111
... once , to her great anxiety , it remained long at St. Petersburg . For such a slow scholar Martha was not unlearned at last , since everything about life in these foreign towns was of interest to her faithful heart . She satisfied her ...
... once , to her great anxiety , it remained long at St. Petersburg . For such a slow scholar Martha was not unlearned at last , since everything about life in these foreign towns was of interest to her faithful heart . She satisfied her ...
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... once , " ( but I'm speaking of fifteen or twenty years ago ) is Kensington . One was in the Gardens in ten minutes - it was like the heart of the country . One could dine out in one's slippers without catching cold . Kensington - it was ...
... once , " ( but I'm speaking of fifteen or twenty years ago ) is Kensington . One was in the Gardens in ten minutes - it was like the heart of the country . One could dine out in one's slippers without catching cold . Kensington - it was ...
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... Once again , longing disrupted me . The year without her , before age sixteen , I preoccupied myself with the boy from Alabama . The town disapproved of brown and white holding hands . Since my childhood , racial insults were common in ...
... Once again , longing disrupted me . The year without her , before age sixteen , I preoccupied myself with the boy from Alabama . The town disapproved of brown and white holding hands . Since my childhood , racial insults were common in ...
Contents
MENS WRITING ON ROMANTIC FRIENDSHIP | 9 |
WOMENS WRITING ON ROMANTIC FRIENDSHIP | 17 |
Aphra Behn | 24 |
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