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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... play , The Forc'd Marriage . This was followed by more than a dozen successful plays , though she also demanded , as she said in one poem , to assert " my masculine part , the poet in me . " In addition to writing drama and poetry she ...
... play , The Forc'd Marriage . This was followed by more than a dozen successful plays , though she also demanded , as she said in one poem , to assert " my masculine part , the poet in me . " In addition to writing drama and poetry she ...
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... play for N. K. when the theatre scheme came off . " Well , Warren , how's the play ? " said Norman Knight , dropping his monocle and giving his eye a moment in which to rise to the surface before it was screwed down again . And Mrs ...
... play for N. K. when the theatre scheme came off . " Well , Warren , how's the play ? " said Norman Knight , dropping his monocle and giving his eye a moment in which to rise to the surface before it was screwed down again . And Mrs ...
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... play , you win . You play , you lose . You play . I was careful to steal enough to buy a bottle of the best champagne . Lovers are not at their best when it matters . Mouths dry up , palms sweat , conversation flags and all the time the ...
... play , you win . You play , you lose . You play . I was careful to steal enough to buy a bottle of the best champagne . Lovers are not at their best when it matters . Mouths dry up , palms sweat , conversation flags and all the time the ...
Contents
Y Jean Jacques Rousseau | 12 |
Katherine Fowler Philips | 17 |
To My Excellent Lucasia on Our Friendship | 23 |
Copyright | |
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