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Two friends and other nineteenth-century lesbian stories by American women writers

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A collection of eleven short stories dealing with "non-Platonic love between women" dating back from the post-Civil War early women's rights period, which includes a preface for each work. Includes writers such as Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, Mary E. Wilkins and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Writing about a wide range of subjects, they share a theme of women loving women and are examples of the beginning of lesbian literature in America.

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Publisher
Meridian
Language
English
Pages
242

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Table of Contents

Introduction
My visitation / by Rose Terry
Since I died / by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Felipa / by Constance Fenimore Woolson
My Lorelei / by Alice French (Octave Thanet)
Miss Grief / by Constance Fenimore Woolson
Two friends / by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
The long arm / by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
The falling in love of Fedora / by Kate Chopin
There and here / by Alice Brown
Martha's lady / by Sarah Orne Jewett
Max
or his picture / by Alice French (Octave Thanet)
A note on the text.

Edition Notes

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.4080353
Library of Congress
PS648.L47 T86 1994

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 242 p. ;
Number of pages
242

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL1080409M
ISBN 10
0452011191
LCCN
94003896
OCLC/WorldCat
29797992
LibraryThing
247014
Goodreads
1104443

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL15065221W

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