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The Penguin book of lesbian short stories

An anthology representing the work of 33 women from Britain, Europe and the Americas. It ranges from 1897 to 1993, showing how women writers have explored in words what it is to be a lesbian. Featured writers include Orne Jewett, Woolf, Stein, Mansfield, Barnes and Winterson.
Print Book, English, 1993
Viking, London, 1993
short stories
xxxiii, 429 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780670843213, 9780670854257, 9780670851539, 0670843210, 0670854255, 0670851531
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Martha's lady / Sarah Orne Jewett
Prince Charming / Renée Vivien
Leves amores / Katherine Mansfield
The wise Sappho / H.D
Miss Furr and Miss Skeene / Gertrude Stein
Ladies almanack / Djuna Barnes
A room of one's own / Virginia Woolf
Miss Ogilvy finds herself / Radclyffe Hall
Nuits Blanches / Colette
Olivia / Dorothy Strachey
The blank page / Isak Dinesen
Cities of the interior / Anaïs
I am a woman / Ann Bannon
Les guérillères / Monique Wittig
These our mothers / Nicole Brossard
Sweethearts / Jayne Anne Phillips
Esther's story / Joan Nestle
How to engage in courting rituals 1950s Butch-style in the bar / Merril Mushroom
Bread / Rebecca Brown
His nor hers / Jane Rule
5 1/2 Charlotte Mews / Anna Livia
Lullaby for my dyke and her cat / Sara Maitland
Don't explain / Jewelle Gomez
A lesbian appetite / Dorothy Allison
The vampire / Pat Califia
The secret of Sorrerby Rise / Frances Gapper
Serial monogamy / Alison Bechdel
City of boys / Beth Nugent
Cold-blooded / Margaret Atwood
Words for things / Emma Donoghue
The language of the body / Kathy Acker
The poetics of sex / Jeanette Winterson