Category: Autobiography/Biography

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The Called And Chosen by Monica Baldwin

Monica Baldwin | The Called And Chosen | A good study of repression and frustration in convent life, containing passim the story of Sister Helena, novice-mistress; although her behavior was

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I Know My Own Heart by Anne Lister; Helena Whitbread

Anne Lister; Helena Whitbread | I Know My Own Heart | …the souvenir of an unabashed and often triumphant erotic life, rediscovered after nearly two hundred years, the story of [Anne Lister’s] desire- an

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Once Upon A Convent by Orice Klaas

Orice Klaas | Once Upon A Convent | A Memoir of a Lesbian Nun

A fifteen year old girl enters a convent during the mid-nineteen fifties, when nuns still wear traditional hab

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Sounding Out by Martha Mockus

Martha Mockus | Sounding Out | Sounding Out: Pauline Oliveros and Lesbian Musicality examines the musical career of the avant-garde composer, accordionist, whose radical innovations

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Portrait Of A Seductress by Jean Chalon

Jean Chalon | Portrait Of A Seductress | These memoirs of Natalie Barney, by a Frenchman who knew her during the last ten years of her life, have already won two awards in France: the Cazes a

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Going Down With Janis by Peggy Caserta; Dan Knapp

Peggy Caserta; Dan Knapp | Going Down With Janis | This is the raw and scathing portrait of Janis Joplin by her female lover. This book recounts those harrowing days when these two women were just hipp

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Forty-Three Septembers by Jewelle Gomez

Jewelle Gomez | Forty-Three Septembers | From Library Journal

In this collection of 15 personal essays, Gomez ( The Gilda Stories , Firebrand Bks., 1991) writes from the perspective of a

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A Woman Appeared to Me by Renée Vivien

Renée Vivien | A Woman Appeared to Me | A Jeannette Foster translation of the 1904 French original, this is an autobiographical account of Renee Vivien’s love affair with Natalie Clifford Ba

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Sappho Was a Right-On Woman by Sidney Abbott; Barbara Love

Sidney Abbott; Barbara Love | Sappho Was a Right-On Woman | Two-part study about lesbianism, examining how lesbians live their lives and their place in the women’s movement. ‘Very little has been written about

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I Was A Lesbian by Holli J. Hunt

Holli J. Hunt | I Was A Lesbian | This book is about the author, Holli Jenene Hunt, a woman that suffered from low selfesteem and battled with the spirit of lust for several years. How