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SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING
I warmly recommend the following titles (given in order of composition), because they are available and highly enjoyable.
Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (1593). In print from Oxford World’s Classics.
William Shakespeare, As You Like It (c. 1600). Widely available.
Samuel Richardson, Clarissa (1748–49). In print from Penguin Classics.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Julie; or, The Nouvelle Héloïse (1761). Full English translation in print from Dartmouth College Press.
Denis Diderot, The Nun (1796). In print from Penguin Classics and Everyman.
Honoré Balzac, The Girl with the Golden Eyes (1835). Widely available. Download free at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1659.
Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White (1859–60). Widely available.
Elizabeth Gaskell, “The Grey Woman” (1861). Full text at http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/EG-Grey.html.
Adolphe Belot, Mademoiselle Giraud, My Wife (1870). In print from the Modern Language Association.
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla (1872). Widely available. Download free at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10007.
Henry James, The Bostonians (1886). Widely available.
H. Rider Haggard, Allan’s Wife (1889). Widely available. Download free at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2727.
Mary E. Wilkins (later Freeman), “The Long Arm” (1895). Download free at http://home.comcast.net/~WilkinsFreeman/Short/LongArmD.htm.
D. H. Lawrence, The Fox (1922). Widely available.
Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (1927). In print from HarperTorch and New English Library.
Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness (1928). In print from Virago and Wordsworth Classics.
Lillian Hellman, The Children’s Hour (1934). Widely available.
Kate O’Brien, Mary Lavelle (1936). In print from Virago.
Dorothy Dodds Baker, Trio (1943). In print from Greenwood Press.
“Olivia” [Dorothy Strachey Bussy], Olivia (1949). In print from Cleis Press.
Hilda Lawrence, Death of a Doll (1948). In print from Pan Classic Crime.
Josephine Tey, To Love and Be Wise (1950). Widely available.
Patricia Highsmith (as “Claire Morgan”), The Price of Salt, aka Carol (1952). In print from Norton.
Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House (1959). Widely available.
“Isabel Miller” (Alma Routsong), Patience and Sarah, aka A Place for Us (1969). In print from Arsenal Pulp Press.
Rita Mae Brown, Rubyfruit Jungle (1973). In print from Bantam.
Jeanette Winterson, The Passion (1987). Widely available.
Katherine V. Forrest, Murder at the Nightwood Bar (1987). In print from Alyson.
Jewelle Gomez, The Gilda Stories (1991). In print from Firebrand.
Sarah Waters, Affinity (1999) and Fingersmith (2002). In print from Virago and Riverhead.
Finally, two invaluable anthologies, which include or excerpt many of the texts above:
Lillian Faderman, ed., Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present. In print from Penguin.
Terry Castle, ed., The Literature of Lesbianism. In print from Columbia University Press.
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Donoghue, Emma, [date]
Inseparable : desire between women in literature / Emma Donoghue.—1st ed.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-59361-0
1. English literature—History and criticism. 2. French literature—History and criticism. 3. Lesbianism in literature. 4. Desire in literature. 5. Women in literature. I. Title.
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