The literature of lesbianism : a historical anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall / edited by Terry Castle.

"Since the Renaissance, countless writers have been magnetized by the notion of love between women. From Renaissance love poems to twentieth-century novels, plays, and short stories, The Literature of Lesbianism brings together hundreds of literary works on the subject of female homosexuality....

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Other Authors:	Castle, Terry.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Columbia University Press, [2003]
Subjects:	Lesbians > Literary collections. Lesbians' writings. Lesbianism. Lesbians. Sexual minorities. LGBTQ+ people. Sexual orientation.

Table of Contents:

The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 57
The Eighteenth Century 189
The Nineteenth Century 349
The Twentieth Century 599.
The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
from Orlando Furioso / Ludovico Ariosto
"Elegy for a Lady Fallen for Another Lady" / Pontus De Tyard
"Memorable Stories About Women Who Have Degenerated into Men" / Ambroise Paré
from The Journal of Montaigne's Travels in Italy by Way of Switzerland and Germany / Michel De Montaigne
"Poems XLIX" from The Maitland Quarto Manuscript / Anonymous
from The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia / Sir Philip Sidney
from Gallathea / John Lyly
from As You Like It / William Shakespeare
from Twelfth Night / William Shakespeare
The Book of Ruth / The King James Bible
"On a Lady Named Beloved" / Anne De Rohan
from Hic Mulier: or, The Man-Woman / Anonymous
from Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished / George Sandys
"Sapho to Philaenis" / John Donne
"To Mr. J.D." / "T. W."
"Epigram on the Court Pucelle" / Ben Jonson
"On the Friendship Betwixt Two Ladies" / Edmund Waller
"Tribades, or Lesbia" / Francois De Maynard
from Upon Appleton House / Andrew Marvell
"Two Beauties, Tender Lovers" / Denis Sanguin De Saint-Pavin
from Dialogues on the Arcana of Love and Venus by Luisa Sigea Toletana / Nicolas Chorier
from The Life and Death of Mrs. Mary Frith, Commonly Called Moll Cutpurse / Anonymous
"To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship" / Katherine Philips
"Parting with Lucasia: A Song" / Katherine Philips
"Orinda to Lucasia" / Katherine Philips
"Friendship's Mystery: To My Dearest Lucasia" / Katherine Philips
"Injuria Amici" / Katherine Philips
from Lives of Gallant Ladies (1665-1666) / Pierre De Bourdeilles, Seigneur De Brantôme
"To the Fair Clorinda, Who Made Love to Me" / Aphra Behn
"Verses Design'd by Mrs. A. Behn to be sent to a Fair Lady, that Desir'd She Would Absent Herself to Cure her Love" / Aphra Behn
"Accompanying a Ring Bearing the Portrait of la Señora Condesa de Paredes. She Explains" / Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
"Inés, Dear, with your Love I am Enraptured" / Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
"On a Picture Painted by Herself, Representing Two Nymphs of Diana's One in a Posture to Hunt, the Other Bathing" / Anne Killigrew
"On the Soft and Gentle Motions of Eudora" / Anne Killigrew
from The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis / John Dryden
"Love and Friendship: A Pastoral" / Elizabeth Singer Rowe
"Venus's Reply" from A Collection of the Most Choice and Private Poems, Lampoons, &c. / Anonymous.
The Eighteenth Century
"The Ladies of the New Cabal" from The New Atalantis / [Mary] Delarivier Manley
Spectator No. 223 / Joseph Addison
Translation of Sappho Fragment 31 ("Blest as th'Immortal Gods is He") / Ambrose Philips
"Sappho to Phaon" / Alexander Pope
"Friendship between Ephelia and Ardelia" / Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
from Memoirs of the Life of Count Grammont / Anthony Hamilton
"Madrigal" / Pauline De Simiane
"Letter to Madame la Marquise de S[----], On Sending her Tobacco" / Pauline De Simiane
from the Embassy Letters / Mary Wortley Montagu
"Cloe to Artimesa" / Anonymous
Monsieur Thing's Origin: or Seignor D----o's Adventures in Britain / Anonymous
from A Supplement to the Onania, or the Heinous Sin of Self-Pollution / Anonymous
"The Female Cabin Boy" / Anonymous
Translation of Sappho Fragment no. 31 ("Happy as a God is He") / John Addison
No. 130 ("Dire Love, Sweet-Bitter Bird of Prey!") / John Addison
from The Sappho-An. An Heroic Poem of Thee Cantos, in the Ovidian Style, Describing the Pleasures which the Fair Sex Enjoy with Each Other / Anonymous
from Pamela / Samuel Richardson
from Sir Charles Grandison / Samuel Richardson
The Female Husband / Henry Fielding
from Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure / John Cleland
"The Game of Flatts" from Satan's Harvest Home / Anonymous
from The Indiscreet Jewels / Denis Diderot
from The Nun / Denis Diderot
from A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke / Charlotte Charke
from Anecdotes of a Convent / Anonymous
from "Dialogue between Sappho and Ninon de l'Enclos, in the Shades" / Anonymous
from The Adulteress / Anonymous
from A History of My Life / Giacomo Casanova
from Juliette / Marquis De Sade
From the journals of Eleanor Butler / "The Ladies of Llangollen" [Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby]
"Elegy Written at the Sea-side, and Addressed to Miss Honora Sneyd" / Anna Seward
from Llangollen Vale, Inscribed to the Right Honourable Lady Eleanor Butler, and Miss Ponsonby / Anna Seward
"In a Letter to A.R.C., On Her Wishing to be Called Anna" / Mary Matilda Betham
"Invitation: to J.B.C." / Mary Matilda Betham
"A Valentine" / Mary Matilda Betham.
The Nineteenth Century
from Belinda / Maria Edgeworth
Christabel / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
from Christabess: A Right Woeful Poem / "S. T. Colebritche, Esq."
from The Diaries of Anne Lister / Anne Lister
"To the Lady E.B. and the Hon. Miss P., Composed in the Grounds of Plas Newydd, Near Llangollen, 1824" / William Wordsworth
from Mademoiselle de Maupin / Théophile Gautier
from The Girl With the Golden Eyes / Honoré de Balzac
"A Young Girl Seen in Church" / Eliza Mary Hamilton
"To George Sand: A Desire" / Elizabeth Barrett Browning
from Villette / Charlotte Brontë
"Lesbos" / Charles Baudelaire
"Damned Women 1 (Delphine and Hippolyta)" / Charles Baudelaire
"Damned Women 2" / Charles Baudelaire
Goblin Market / Christina Rossetti
"Anactoria" / Algernon Charles Swinburne
from Lesbia Brandon / Algernon Charles Swinburne
Scenes of Saphic Love / Paul Verlaine
"Her Breast is Fit for Pearls" / Emily Dickinson
"Her Sweet Weight on my Heart a Night" / Emily Dickinson
"Going, to, Her!" / Emily Dickinson
"Ourselves were wed one summer, dear" / Emily Dickinson
"Precious to Me, She still shall be" / Emily Dickinson
"The Stars are old, that stood for me" / Emily Dickinson
"Frigid and sweer Her Parting Face" / Emily Dickinson
"To see her is a Picture" / Emily Dickinson
translation of Martial's Epigram VII.67 ("Abhorrent of All Natural Joys") from The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally Translated / George Augustus Sala
from Desperate Remedies / Thomas Hardy
"Since I Died" / Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
"Felipa" / Constance Fenimore Woolson
from Nana / Émile Zola
"Paul's Mistress" / Guy De Maupassant
from My Secret Life / "Walter"
"Sinfonia Eroica (To Sylvia)" / Amy Levy
"To Lallie" / Amy Levy
"Borderland" / Amy Levy
"At a Dinner Party" / Amy Levy
from Lila and Colette / Catulle Mendès
from The Bostonians / Henry James
"Erinna, Thou Art Ever Fair" / "Michael Field" [Katherine Harris Bradley and Edith Cooper]
"Atthis, My Darling" / "Michael Field" [Katherine Harris Bradley and Edith Cooper]
"Maids, Not to You" / "Michael Field" [Katherine Harris Bradley and Edith Cooper]
"Power in Silence" / "Michael Field" [Katherine Harris Bradley and Edith Cooper]
"Daybreak" / "Michael Field" [Katherine Harris Bradley and Edith Cooper]
"My Lady Has a Lovely Rite" / "Michael Field" [Katherine Harris Bradley and Edith Cooper]
from The Songs of Bilitis / Pierre Louÿs
from A Madman's Manifesto / August Strindberg
"Before Dark" / Marcel Proust
from Cities of the Plain / Marcel Proust
"Tommy, the Unsentimental" / Willa Cather
"The Lesbian Hell" / Aleister Crowley.
The Twentieth Century
"Crucifixion" / "Marie Madeleine" [Marie Madeleine von Puttkamer]
"Beneath the Surface" / "Marie Madeleine" [Marie Madeleine von Puttkamer]
"The Unfading" / "Marie Madeleine" [Marie Madeleine von Puttkamer]
"Vagabonds" / "Marie Madeleine" [Marie Madeleine von Puttkamer]
"Woman" / Natalie Clifford Barney
"Couplets" / Natalie Clifford Barney
"Sappho Lives Again" / Renée Vivien
"Words to my Friend" / Renée Vivien
"Kashmiri Song" / "Laurence Hope" [Adela Florence Nicolson]
"From Behind The Lattice" / "Laurence Hope" [Adela Florence Nicolson]
"Rosabel" / Angelina Weld Grimké
"Brown Girl" / Angelina Weld Grimké
from Pandora's Box / Frank Wedekind
"If You Come" / Lucie Delarue-Mardrus
"Leves Amores" / Katherine Mansfield
"Friendship" / Katherine Mansfield
"The Spirit of Thy Singing" / Radclyffe Hall
"Oh! That Thy Lips Were Goblet of Crystal" / Radclyffe Hall
"Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself" / Radcyffe Hall
"Hora Stellatrix" / Amy Lowell
"Stupidity" / Amy Lowell
"Anticipation" / Amy Lowell
"Vintage" / Amy Lowell
"Aubade" / Amy Lowell
"In a Garden" / Amy Lowell
"The Weather-Cock Points South" / Amy Lowell
"The Amazon on the Fountain" / "Vernon Lee" [Violet Paget]
"Are You Happy?" / Marina Tsvetaeva
"Beneath My Plush Wool Plaid's Caresses" / Marina Tsvetaeva
"Tonight, Between Seven and Eight" / Marina Tsvetaeva
"How Can I Not Remember" from "The Girlfriend Poems" / Marina Tsvetaeva
Letter to the Amazon / Marina Tsvetaeva
"In Words, in Their Cold Interlacing" / Sophia Parnok
"At Times Our Premonitions" / Sophia Parnok
"Blindly Staring Eyes" / Sophia Parnok
"You Sleep, My Companion-Lover" / Sophia Parnok
"You Came In" / Sophia Parnok
"I, Like a Blind Woman" / Sophia Parnok
from Lifting Belly / Gertrude Stein
"Miss Furr and Miss Skeene" / Gertrude Stein-- "As a Wife has a Cow: A Love Story" from A Book Concluding with As a Wife Has a Cow: A Love Story / Gertrude Stein
from The Rainbow / D.H. Lawrence
"À Quoi Bon Dire" / Charlotte Mew
"On the Road to the Sea" / Charlotte Mew
"The Road to Kérity" / Charlotte Mew
"My Heart Is Lame" / Charlotte Mew
from Regiment of Women / "Clemence Dane" [Winifred Ashton]
"The Fire" / Helen Rose Hull
from Despised and Rejected / "A. T. Fitzroy" [Rose Allatini]
"I Can't Feel the Sunshine" / Lesbia Harford
"You Want a Lily" / Lesbia Harford
Letters to Vita Sackville-West / Violet Trefusis
from My Blue Notebooks / Liane De Pougy
From an unpublished memoir / Vita Sackville-West
"Self-Epitaph, Composed by an Honest Sensualist" / Vita Sackville-West
"She Brought with Careless Hand" / Vita Sackville-West
"Tess" / Vita Sackville-West
"A Dream of Sappho" / Rose O' Neill
"Death Shall Not Ease Me of You" / Rose O' Neill
"Mea Culpa" / Rose O' Neill
"But If You Come to Me by Day" / Rose O' Neill
from The Flower Beneath the Foot / Ronald Firbank
"Fragment Thirty-Six" from Heliodora / H.D. [Hilda Doolittle]
From HERmione / H.D. [Hilda Doolittle]
from Mrs. Dalloway / Virginia Woolf
from Orlando / Virginia Woolf
from The Tortoise-Shell Cat / Naomi Royde-Smith
"The Pash" / Thomas Burke
from The Captive / Édouard Bourdet
from Dusty Answer / Rosamond Lehmann
from Extraordinary Women / Compton Mackenzie
The Sink of Solitude / Anonymous
"Cassation" / Djuna Barnes
"The Jungle" / Elizabeth Bowen
"Prove It on Me Blues" (Lesbian Blues Lyrics of the 1920s)
"B. D. Woman Blues"(Lesbian Blues Lyrics of the 1920s)
"Has Anybody Seen My Corinne"(Lesbian Blues Lyrics of the 1920s)
from Passing / Nella Larsen
from Strange Brother / Blair Niles
from My Thirty Years' War / Margaret Anderson
"Lesbian-Ape" from The Apes of God / Wyndham Lewis
from The Pure and the Impure / Colette
from Spangled Unicorn / Noël Coward
"The Knife of the Times" / William Carlos Williams
"Since the First Toss of Gale that Blew" / Sylvia Townsend Warner
"Out of Your Left Eye" / Sylvia Townsend Warner
"I Would Give You Alexander's Bucephalus" / Sylvia Townsend Warner
"Loved with an L ..." / Sylvia Townsend Warner
"Drawing You, Heavy with Sleep" / Sylvia Townsend Warner
"The Sea Change" / Ernest Hemingway
from Intimate Memories / Mabel Dodge Luhan
"The Bathe" / "Henry Handel Richardson" [Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson]
"Two Hanged Women" / "Henry Handel Richardson" [Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson]
from Devoted Ladies / "M. J. Farrell" [Molly Keane]
"Sappho or Suicide" / Marguerite Yourcenar
from Of Lena Geyer / Marcia Davenport
"Breeze Anstey" / H.E. Bates
from Diana: A Strange Autobiography / "Diana Frederics"
"It Is Marvelous to Wake Up Together" / Elizabeth Bishop
from Two Serious Ladies / Jane Bowles
"Going to Massachusetts" / Jane Bowles
from The Friendly Young Ladies / Mary Renault
from For Sylvia / Valentine Ackland
from Olivia / Dorothy Strachey
"Women Are Like Geography" / Gertrude Lawrence
from The Price of Salt / "Claire Morgan" [Patricia Highsmith]
from La Bâtarde / Violette Leduc
"Chagrin in Three Parts" / Graham Greene
"Zeitl and Rickel" / Isaac Bashevis Singer
"Memory Is All: Alice B. Toklas" / Janet Flanner.

The literature of lesbianism : a historical anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall / edited by Terry Castle.

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