Golden Age of Lesbian Erotica, 1920-1940 |
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| Editor:
| Redding, Judith M.
Brownworth, Victoria A. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-9774311-4-4 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2007 |
| Publisher: | Magic Carpet Books, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $23.95 |
Book Description:
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Lesbian erotica of the 1920s through the 1940s had a bold new cast to it. Unlike the tender and affectionate eroticism of the Victorian era with its naughty schoolgirls, convent antics and ladies-in-waiting, the 20th century tales brought verisimilitude and fantasy together. While Radclyffe Hall was being prosecuted for obscenity for her depiction of 'Sapphics' and 'inverts' in her classic lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness, the poet Renee Vivienne and Anais Nin were penning lurid...
More DescriptionLesbian erotica of the 1920s through the 1940s had a bold new cast to it. Unlike the tender and affectionate eroticism of the Victorian era with its naughty schoolgirls, convent antics and ladies-in-waiting, the 20th century tales brought verisimilitude and fantasy together. While Radclyffe Hall was being prosecuted for obscenity for her depiction of 'Sapphics' and 'inverts' in her classic lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness, the poet Renee Vivienne and Anais Nin were penning lurid and lustful tales of very bad girls while yearning for Henry Miller's wife, June.