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 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 ...
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... Alice also knew she was still half - crazy with drugs or pain . There the house still stood , and Bett carried her up the stairs into an attic so clean and fresh she hardly recognized it . Alice began to believe in delivery . " This ...
... Alice also knew she was still half - crazy with drugs or pain . There the house still stood , and Bett carried her up the stairs into an attic so clean and fresh she hardly recognized it . Alice began to believe in delivery . " This ...
Contents
Y Jean Jacques Rousseau | 12 |
Katherine Fowler Philips | 17 |
To My Excellent Lucasia on Our Friendship | 23 |
Copyright | |
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