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

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Women playwrights of the Restoration and eighteenth century were bawdy and proper, apologetic and defiant, often derided and occasionally praised. The seven women represented in this groundbreaking anthology - the only collection of Restoration and eighteenth-century plays devoted exclusively to women - had but one thing in common: the desire to ignore convention and write for the stage.

In 1660, when theatres in England reopened after years of Puritan repression, women trod the boards as actors for the very first time. By the end of the century they had stormed and breached another bastion of the male domain and become dramatists as well. Most available collections of plays from the period exclude them; traditional criticism overlooks or diminishes them. But their works, as seen here, hold their own against the most popular productions for the theater from 1678 to 1787, and do it with a distinctively female spirit.

Each of these English women, and the one American, Mercy Otis Warren, legitimized the profession of playwright for their sex. They were the genre's prolific women pioneers whose body of work has remained unmatched until the twentieth century.

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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.

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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

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1080409M
Internet Archive
isbn_9780452011199
ISBN 10
0452011191
LCCN
94003896
OCLC/WorldCat
29797992
Library Thing
247014
Goodreads
1104443

Work Description

Koppelman has anthologized a collection of stories that recount love and desire between women, all of which appeared in popular literary magazines during the second half of the 19th century. Though the stories are far from sexually explicit, the relationships that unfold--largely "Boston Marriages"--are passionate. Includes contributions by Mary Wilkins Freeman, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Kate Chopin.

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