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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... letter this evening . " I was very much shocked . General Spielsdorf had mentioned in his first letter , six or seven weeks before , that she was not so well as he would wish her , but there was nothing to suggest the remotest suspicion ...
... letter this evening . " I was very much shocked . General Spielsdorf had mentioned in his first letter , six or seven weeks before , that she was not so well as he would wish her , but there was nothing to suggest the remotest suspicion ...
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... letter in his hand - and said : " This letter had been delayed ; it is from General Spielsdorf . He might have been here yesterday , he may not come till to - morrow , or he may be here to - day . " He put the open letter into my hand ...
... letter in his hand - and said : " This letter had been delayed ; it is from General Spielsdorf . He might have been here yesterday , he may not come till to - morrow , or he may be here to - day . " He put the open letter into my hand ...
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... letter , would probably interest me above all others , and he urged me earnestly to invite him to visit him there ; and so took his leave . " The ecclesiastic was absent , and I read the letter by myself . At another time , or in ...
... letter , would probably interest me above all others , and he urged me earnestly to invite him to visit him there ; and so took his leave . " The ecclesiastic was absent , and I read the letter by myself . At another time , or in ...
Contents
Y Jean Jacques Rousseau | 12 |
Katherine Fowler Philips | 17 |
To My Excellent Lucasia on Our Friendship | 23 |
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