{"id":22742,"date":"2013-02-27T00:50:57","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T00:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/?p=22742"},"modified":"2013-02-27T00:50:57","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T00:50:57","slug":"intimate-friends-by-martha-vicinus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/intimate-friends-by-martha-vicinus\/","title":{"rendered":"Intimate Friends by Martha Vicinus"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Intimate Friends<\/em><\/h2>\n

Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928<\/em><\/h3>\n

Martha Vicinus<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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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.\u00a0Drawing 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.<\/div>\n
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