Intimate Friends
Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928
Martha Vicinus
Intimate Friends explores the fascinating history of the erotic friendships of educated English and American women over the 150-year period leading up to the 1928 publication of Radclyffe Hall’s landmark novel, The Well of Loneliness. Distinguished scholar Martha Vicinus explores all-female communities, liaisons between younger and older women, the female rake, and even mother-daughter affection. Women, she reveals, drew upon a rich religious vocabulary to describe elusive and complex erotic feelings. Drawing upon diaries, letters, and other archival sources, Vicinus brings to life a variety of well-known and historically less recognized women, ranging from the predatory Ann Lister (who documented her sexual activities in code); to Mary Benson (the wife of the Archbishop of Canterbury); to the coterie of wealthy Anglo-American lesbians living in Paris. In vivid and colorful prose, Intimate Friends offers a remarkable picture of women navigating the uncharted territory of same-sex desire.
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| ISBN | 9780226855646 |
| Genre | History; Lesbian Studies |
| Copyright Date | 2004 |
| Publication Date | 01-May-06 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
| Format | Trade Paperback |
| No. of Pages | 344 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | NotRated |
| Subject | History / General; Lesbianism; Lesbianism/ History; Lesbians; Lesbians/ History |
| BookID | 6049 |
