Adrienne Rich | The Dream of a Common Language | Adrienne Rich began her seventh volume of poems, Diving Into the Wreck (1973), with a quote from George Eliot: ‘There is no private life which is not
Jane Rule | Desert Of The Heart | Possibly Jane Rule’s best known novel, The Desert of the Heart is the story of a free spirited woman falling for a repressed older woman. Evelyn Hall
Assia Djebar | The Mischief | It was written and first published in French in the mid-50’s, and is set over the course of a single summer. Its heroine is one of the jeunesse dorée,
Alicia Kay Smith | Only in Whispers | ‘Never the sound of your name on my lips/ And my heart speaks ONLY IN WHISPERS’ is the titular designation of Alicia Kay Smith’s only known pertinent
Ann Bannon | I Am a Woman | She looked round the Cellar with Laura following her gaze. ‘I know most of the girls here…I’ve probably slept with half of them. I’ve lived with hal
Mary C. Sturgeon | Michael Field | Michael Field was a pseudonym used for the poetry and verse drama of the English authors and lovers Katharine Harris Bradley (27 October 1846 26 Sep
Sarah Kilpatrick | Ladies’ Close | The author has devoted herself to the sexual last rites of the over-forty female (The Phoenix Hour; 1962. . . The Cool Meridian; 1965) With their atte