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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... sitting - room ; somehow the doors and woodwork of the sitting - room were pocked with bullet marks . Denys was there too , and she kept saying all kinds of wild things , like , " Let me explain , " or , " Tell her it isn't true , " and ...
... sitting - room ; somehow the doors and woodwork of the sitting - room were pocked with bullet marks . Denys was there too , and she kept saying all kinds of wild things , like , " Let me explain , " or , " Tell her it isn't true , " and ...
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... sitting there in the car under the street light . Just sitting there . " It was like she didn't care or had known it all along . She was as far over the edge of the bed as she could get , her legs stretched out stiff and her hands ...
... sitting there in the car under the street light . Just sitting there . " It was like she didn't care or had known it all along . She was as far over the edge of the bed as she could get , her legs stretched out stiff and her hands ...
Page 515
... sitting on the front porch with Mama and Papa and hearing their low talk without listening to the words . I wanted to go in our room with Sis but I was afraid to . I wanted to ask her what was really the matter . Was hers and Tuck's ...
... sitting on the front porch with Mama and Papa and hearing their low talk without listening to the words . I wanted to go in our room with Sis but I was afraid to . I wanted to ask her what was really the matter . Was hers and Tuck's ...
Contents
Y Jean Jacques Rousseau | 12 |
Katherine Fowler Philips | 17 |
To My Excellent Lucasia on Our Friendship | 23 |
Copyright | |
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