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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... beautiful like a saint , like the picturesqueness of a lonely tree which lives to shelter unnumbered lives and to stand quietly in its place . There was such rustic homeliness and constancy belonging to her , such beautiful powers of ...
... beautiful like a saint , like the picturesqueness of a lonely tree which lives to shelter unnumbered lives and to stand quietly in its place . There was such rustic homeliness and constancy belonging to her , such beautiful powers of ...
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... beautiful young woman who pretends to have a twin brother , in whose guise she seduces another woman . Fragoletta influenced two 1835 novels , Théophile Gautier's Ma- demoiselle de Maupin and Honoré de Balzac's The Girl with the Golden ...
... beautiful young woman who pretends to have a twin brother , in whose guise she seduces another woman . Fragoletta influenced two 1835 novels , Théophile Gautier's Ma- demoiselle de Maupin and Honoré de Balzac's The Girl with the Golden ...
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... beautiful Mir- calla , Countess Karnstein . Her early death plunged him into inconsolable grief . It is the nature of vampires to increase and multiply , but according to an ascertained and ghostly law . " Assume , at starting , a ...
... beautiful Mir- calla , Countess Karnstein . Her early death plunged him into inconsolable grief . It is the nature of vampires to increase and multiply , but according to an ascertained and ghostly law . " Assume , at starting , a ...
Contents
Y Jean Jacques Rousseau | 12 |
Katherine Fowler Philips | 17 |
To My Excellent Lucasia on Our Friendship | 23 |
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