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A Year with the Ladies of Llangollen by Elizabeth Mavor

Elizabeth Mavor | A Year with the Ladies of Llangollen | In 1778, to the fury of their aristocratic families, Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby eloped and fled to North Wales, to Llangollen.

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What It’s Like to Live Now by Meredith Maran

Meredith Maran | What It’s Like to Live Now | Like the heart-to-heart conversations you share with your funniest, most honest, most unshockable woman friend, What It’s Like to Live Now reveals the

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Here Lies The Heart by Mercedes De Acosta

Mercedes De Acosta | Here Lies The Heart | A murky combination of refinement, confusion, and a desperate faith in the occult, is this autobiography of Mercedes de Acosta, writer, society woman,

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The Notebooks That Emma Gave Me by Kady; Kady Van Deurs

Kady; Kady Van Deurs | The Notebooks That Emma Gave Me | Kay Van Deurs has shared with us her journal and various letters by and to her. They add up to an interesting autobiographical portrait that captures

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Women Together/Women Apart by Tirza True Latimer

Tirza True Latimer | Women Together/Women Apart | What does it mean to look like a lesbian? Though it remains impossible to conjure a definitive image that captures the breadth of this highly nuanced

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A Year Straight by Elena Azzoni

Elena Azzoni | A Year Straight | After having spent nearly her entire adult life dating women (and liking it), Elena Azzoni felt pretty secure in her sexual orientation: she’d even ju

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Adventures of the Mind by Natalie Clifford Barney

Natalie Clifford Barney | Adventures of the Mind | In this book, Barney explores her family tree, chronicles her friendships and associations through reprinted correspondence and recreated conversation

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Lesbian Crush Diaries by Natasha Holme

Natasha Holme | Lesbian Crush Diaries | Lesbian Crushes at School: A Diary on Growing Up Gay in the Eighties … In 1983 thirteen-year-old Natasha is in love with her French teacher, Miss Wi

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Flying by Kate Millett

Kate Millett | Flying | ‘In a kaleidoscopic, almost cinematic style, Kate Millett unreels her inner and outer life during one decisive year: the year after ‘Sexual Politics’

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Wild Heart: A Life by Suzanne Rodriguez

Suzanne Rodriguez | Wild Heart: A Life | Born in 1876, Natalie Barney-beautiful, charismatic, brilliant and wealthy-was expected to marry well and lead the conventional life of a privileged s