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 49
... gone to meeting it filled my mind so full , I could not find a chink to put the worthy pastor ; when he said " Our Heavenly Father , " I said “ Oh Darling Sue " ; when he read the 100th Psalm , I kept saying your precious letter all ...
... gone to meeting it filled my mind so full , I could not find a chink to put the worthy pastor ; when he said " Our Heavenly Father , " I said “ Oh Darling Sue " ; when he read the 100th Psalm , I kept saying your precious letter all ...
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... gone at sixes and sevens in the Southdown National . For Thomas Shirley had big land in- terests in Wyoming that called him constantly away from home , and his cashier , little Jay Ellington Harper , was , in the local phrase , a weak ...
... gone at sixes and sevens in the Southdown National . For Thomas Shirley had big land in- terests in Wyoming that called him constantly away from home , and his cashier , little Jay Ellington Harper , was , in the local phrase , a weak ...
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... gone for good . It's October now and the sun shines bright and a little cool and the sky is the color of my turquoise ring . Dan's gone to Tech . So has Tuck gone . It's not at all like it was last fall , though . I come in from High ...
... gone for good . It's October now and the sun shines bright and a little cool and the sky is the color of my turquoise ring . Dan's gone to Tech . So has Tuck gone . It's not at all like it was last fall , though . I come in from High ...
Contents
Y Jean Jacques Rousseau | 12 |
Katherine Fowler Philips | 17 |
To My Excellent Lucasia on Our Friendship | 23 |
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