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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... Jane Bowles , and Carson McCullers , believed they also needed to be married to a man - for the sake of appearances , for the promise of permanent companionship ( which they despaired of achieving with other women in a world that was ...
... Jane Bowles , and Carson McCullers , believed they also needed to be married to a man - for the sake of appearances , for the promise of permanent companionship ( which they despaired of achieving with other women in a world that was ...
Page 518
... Jane often lived with Helvetia but saw Paul every day when they were in the same city . ( The relationship with Helvetia is recorded in Jane Bowles's short play A Quarreling Pair [ 1944 ] , which encodes the lesbian material by ...
... Jane often lived with Helvetia but saw Paul every day when they were in the same city . ( The relationship with Helvetia is recorded in Jane Bowles's short play A Quarreling Pair [ 1944 ] , which encodes the lesbian material by ...
Page 519
... Jane , the exoticism of the adventure was enviable . She discovered , how- ever , that as a Western woman it was much less easy to make such contacts and inroads into the ... Jane Bowles to Natasha von Hoershelman & JANE ( AUER ) BOWLES 519.
... Jane , the exoticism of the adventure was enviable . She discovered , how- ever , that as a Western woman it was much less easy to make such contacts and inroads into the ... Jane Bowles to Natasha von Hoershelman & JANE ( AUER ) BOWLES 519.
Contents
Y Jean Jacques Rousseau | 12 |
Katherine Fowler Philips | 17 |
To My Excellent Lucasia on Our Friendship | 23 |
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