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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... touch your hand - my cheek your cheek - I stroke your vanished hair , Why did you enter , sister , since you must depart ? Had not its heart been torn enough but you must send your shred ? Oh ! our Condor Kate ! Come from your crags ...
... touch your hand - my cheek your cheek - I stroke your vanished hair , Why did you enter , sister , since you must depart ? Had not its heart been torn enough but you must send your shred ? Oh ! our Condor Kate ! Come from your crags ...
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... know we are productive too productive , too reproductive for our present invention - never to despise the homosexual who goes building another with touch with touch ( not to despise any touch MURIEL 533 RUKEYSER Despisals.
... know we are productive too productive , too reproductive for our present invention - never to despise the homosexual who goes building another with touch with touch ( not to despise any touch MURIEL 533 RUKEYSER Despisals.
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... touch with touch ( not to despise any touch ) each like himself , like herself each . You are this . In the body's ghetto never to go despising the asshole nor the useful shit that is our clean clue to what we need . Never to despise ...
... touch with touch ( not to despise any touch ) each like himself , like herself each . You are this . In the body's ghetto never to go despising the asshole nor the useful shit that is our clean clue to what we need . Never to despise ...
Contents
Y Jean Jacques Rousseau | 12 |
Katherine Fowler Philips | 17 |
To My Excellent Lucasia on Our Friendship | 23 |
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