Passions Between Women : British Lesbian Culture, 1668-1801

London: Scarlet Press, 1993. Softcover. Good Condition. 21.6 x 13.5 x 1.9 cm. Cover shows modest signs of use, and one or two marks and scuffs. Annotations in pencil here and there. Otherwise, in good overall condition. Publisher's note: "Where previous historians have concluded that a combination of censorship and ignorance excluded lesbian experience from written history before our era, Emma Donoghue has decisively proved otherwise. She dispels the myth that seventeenth- and eighteenth-century lesbian culture was rarely registered in language and that lesbians of this period had no words with which to describe themselves. Far from being invisible, the figure of the woman who felt passion for women was a subject of confusion and contradiction: she could be put in a freak show as a "hermaphrodite", revered as a "romantic friend", or jailed as a "female husband". By examining a wealth of new medical, legal, and erotic source material, and rereading the classics of English literature, Emma Donoghue has uncovered narratives of an astonishing range of lesbian and bisexual identities in Britain between 1668 and 1801. Female pirates and spiritual mentors, chambermaids and queens, poets and prostitutes, country idylls and whipping clubs all take their place in her intriguing panorama of lesbian lives and loves."--GoogleBooks Size: 21.6 x 13.5 x 1.9 cm. 314 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Gay & Lesbian; Lesbianism -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; Lesbianism -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Lesbianism -- Great Britain -- Sexual behaviour; Homosexuality and literature; Lesbians in literature -- Great Britain; Lesbians' writings, English -- History and criticism; Sex in literature; ISBN: 1857270460. ISBN/EAN: 9781857270464. Add. Inventory No: 240229NPG011044. . 9781857270464