Poems Between Women: Four Centuries of Love, Romantic Friendship, and DesireEmma Donoghue The collection Poems Between Women explores many facets of female-female relationships in poems not only about love or affection between or inspired by women but also about the moments that complicate and call into question the nature of sexuality and intimacy between women. Including women married and single, young and old, lesbian, bisexual, and heterosexual, the anthology covers historical development and changing mores through the seventeenth century, after the Restoration of Charles II, a time of relative freedom for women; the eighteenth century, when the cult of romantic friendship reached its peak; the nineteenth century, when women writers wrote about issues of same-sex desire indirectly and explored complex issues such as death in tones of weariness and resignation; and the twentieth century, when poets began to engage in more overt explorations of women's bodies, sensuality, and lovemaking. Emma Donoghue's introduction deftly guides readers into the rich tradition of women's poetry in English, exploring the relationships between poets and their muses and poets and their cultures. Poems Between Women is testimony not only to the recurring theme of the unique bonds among women but also to the universality of love, friendship, and creativity. |
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... 'd by Mrs A. Behn to be sent to a fair Lady 7 Mary Mollineux 8 Another Letter to a Friend 8 Jane Barker 9 4 On the Death of my Dear Friend and Play - fellow , Mrs E. D. 9 Anne Killigrew II On the Soft and Gentle Motions of.
... 'd by Mrs A. Behn to be sent to a fair Lady 7 Mary Mollineux 8 Another Letter to a Friend 8 Jane Barker 9 4 On the Death of my Dear Friend and Play - fellow , Mrs E. D. 9 Anne Killigrew II On the Soft and Gentle Motions of.
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... Mary Masters 18 To the Same ; Enquiring Why I Wept 18 Elizabeth Teft 19 On a Friend's taking a Journey 19 Charlotte MacCarthy 20 Contentment , to a Friend To the Same 2I Susanna Highmore Duncombe To Aspasia 22 Charlotte Lennox 25 20 22 ...
... Mary Masters 18 To the Same ; Enquiring Why I Wept 18 Elizabeth Teft 19 On a Friend's taking a Journey 19 Charlotte MacCarthy 20 Contentment , to a Friend To the Same 2I Susanna Highmore Duncombe To Aspasia 22 Charlotte Lennox 25 20 22 ...
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... Mary Matilda Betham 4I In a Letter to A. R. C. on Her Wishing to be Called Anna 41 Sydney Owenson , Lady Morgan 42 Fragment III 42 Mary Russell Mitford 44 Written in a Blank - Paper Contents xi.
... Mary Matilda Betham 4I In a Letter to A. R. C. on Her Wishing to be Called Anna 41 Sydney Owenson , Lady Morgan 42 Fragment III 42 Mary Russell Mitford 44 Written in a Blank - Paper Contents xi.
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Four Centuries of Love, Romantic Friendship, and Desire Emma Donoghue. Mary Russell Mitford 44 Written in a Blank - Paper Book Given to the Author by a Friend 44 Dorothea Primrose Campbell 45 To Miss Sophia Headle 45 Caroline Clive 46 ...
Four Centuries of Love, Romantic Friendship, and Desire Emma Donoghue. Mary Russell Mitford 44 Written in a Blank - Paper Book Given to the Author by a Friend 44 Dorothea Primrose Campbell 45 To Miss Sophia Headle 45 Caroline Clive 46 ...
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... Mary F. Robinson 87 Rosa Rosarum 87 Edith Nesbit 89 To Vera , Who Asked a Song 89 Katharine Lee Bates 90 ' Even as this globe shall gleam and disappear ' 90 Mary Coleridge 90 The Witch 90 Mistaken 91 Marriage 92 Not Yet 92 " L Gone 93 ...
... Mary F. Robinson 87 Rosa Rosarum 87 Edith Nesbit 89 To Vera , Who Asked a Song 89 Katharine Lee Bates 90 ' Even as this globe shall gleam and disappear ' 90 Mary Coleridge 90 The Witch 90 Mistaken 91 Marriage 92 Not Yet 92 " L Gone 93 ...
Contents
Acknowledgements | xxi |
Emily Hickey | xxxi |
Ursula Bethell ΙΙΟ | xl |
Daphne Marlatt | xliii |
Aphra Behn | 4 |
Anne Killigrew II | 11 |
Charlotte Lennox | 25 |
Elizabeth Hands | 28 |
Helen Hunt Jackson | 70 |
Rosa Mulholland Lady Gilbert | 77 |
Michael Field | 81 |
Edith Nesbit | 89 |
Sophie Jewett | 96 |
Gertrude Stein | 112 |
Dorothy Wellesley Duchess of Wellington | 125 |
Dorothy Livesay | 138 |
Eliza Robertson | 34 |
Mary Matilda Betham | 41 |
Mary Russell Mitford | 44 |
Frances Kemble | 50 |
Emily Brontė | 56 |
Bessie Rayner Parkes | 63 |
Pat Parker | 151 |
Mary Dorcey | 157 |
Ali Smith | 163 |
Biographical Notes | 165 |
Permissions | 195 |
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Alice Anne Anthology Ardelia beauty beloved blessed bliss bosom breast breath bright Charlotte charm cold dark dear death dost dream Elizabeth Barrett Browning Elizabeth Daryush ENGLAND EPHELIA ev'ry eyes face fair fear flame flowers FRANCE garden gentle girl glow golden grace grief hair hand hath heart Heaven Katherine Philips kiss Ladies of Llangollen Lady Lesbia Harford Lesbian Lifting belly light literary live London look love between women Love Poems lover maid maiden Marilyn Hacker Mary Michael Field Mosel river ne'er never novel nymph o'er Olga Broumas pain passion Peace Pearl poets published Queen romantic friendship rose secret shade shine sighs sing sleep smile soft song sonnets sorrow soul sweet Sylvia Townsend Warner tears tender thee thine things thought Twas Valentine Ackland voice Whilst Wild Nights wind woman women's love youth
References to this book
Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain Tracy C. Davis,Ellen Donkin Limited preview - 1999 |