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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... voice . " Well , Cynthia , have you anything to say ? " Cynthia lifted her eyes . " Don't you think I have trouble enough with your brothers ? You , a grown girl , defying me ! I can't understand it . " " I went down for this ...
... voice . " Well , Cynthia , have you anything to say ? " Cynthia lifted her eyes . " Don't you think I have trouble enough with your brothers ? You , a grown girl , defying me ! I can't understand it . " " I went down for this ...
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... voice a voice quite worth cultivating . She did not mind working . She worked to cultivate her voice . She did not find it gay living in the same place where she had always been living . She went to a place where some were cultivating ...
... voice a voice quite worth cultivating . She did not mind working . She worked to cultivate her voice . She did not find it gay living in the same place where she had always been living . She went to a place where some were cultivating ...
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... voice and it was quite well enough cultivated and she could use it and she did use it but then there was not any way of working at cultivating a completely pleasant voice when it has become a quite completely well enough cultivated one ...
... voice and it was quite well enough cultivated and she could use it and she did use it but then there was not any way of working at cultivating a completely pleasant voice when it has become a quite completely well enough cultivated one ...
Contents
Y Jean Jacques Rousseau | 12 |
Katherine Fowler Philips | 17 |
To My Excellent Lucasia on Our Friendship | 23 |
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