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| Acknowledgments | |
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| A Note on the Texts | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries | |
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| From Orlando Furioso (1532) | |
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| "Elegy for a Lady Fallen for Another Lady" (1573) | |
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| "Memorable Stories About Women Who Have Degenerated Into Men" (1573) | |
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| from The Journal of Montaigne's Travels in Italy by Way of Switzerland and Germany (1581) | |
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| "Poem XLIX" from The Maitland Quarto Manuscript (1586) | |
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| from The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (1590) | |
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| from Gallathea (1592) | |
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| from As You Like It (1600) | |
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| from Twelfth Night (1602) | |
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| The Book of Ruth | |
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| "On a Lady Named Beloved" (1617) | |
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| from Hic Mulier: or, The Man-Woman (1620) | |
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| from Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished (1626) | |
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| "Sapho to Philaenis" (1633) | |
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| "To Mr. J.D." (c. 1633) | |
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| "Epigram on the Court Pucelle" (1640) | |
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| "On the Friendship Betwixt Two Ladies" (1645) | |
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| "Tribades, or Lesbia" (1646) | |
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| from Upon Appleton House (1650) | |
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| "Two Beauties, Tender Lovers" (c. 1650) | |
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| from Dialogues on the Arcana of Love and Venus by Luisa Sigea Toletana (1660-78) | |
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| from The Life and Death of Mrs. Mary Frith. Commonly Called Moll Cutpurse (1662) | |
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| "To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship" | |
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| "Parting with Lucasia: A Song" | |
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| "Orinda to Lucasia" | |
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| "Friendship's Mystery: To My Dearest Lucasia" | |
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| "Injuria Amici" (1664) | |
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| from Lives of Gallant Ladies (1665-1666) | |
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| "To the Fair Clorinda, Who Made Love to Me" | |
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| "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" | |
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| "Accompanying a Ring Bearing the Portrait of la Senora Condesa de Paredes. She Explains" | |
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| "Ines, Dear, with your Love I am Enraptured" (c. 1685) | |
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| "On a Picture Painted by Herself, Representing Two Nymphs of Diana's, One in a Posture to Hunt, the Other Bathing" | |
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| "On the Soft and Gentle Motions of Eudora" (attr.) (1686) | |
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| from The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis (1693) | |
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| "Love and Friendship: A Pastoral" (1696) | |
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| "Venus's Reply" from A Collection of the Most Choice and Private Poems, Lampoons, &c. (1699) | |
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| The Eighteenth Century | |
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| "The Ladies of the New Cabal" from The New Atalantis (1709) | |
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| Spectator No. 223 (1711) | |
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| Translation of Sappho Fragment 31 ("Blest as th'Immortal Gods is He") (1711) | |
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| "Sappho to Phaon" (1712) | |
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| "Friendship between Ephelia and Ardelia" (1713) | |
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| From Memoirs of the Life of Count Grammont (1713) | |
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| "Madrigal" (1715) | |
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| "Letter to Madame la Marquise de S[--], On Sending her Tobacco" (1715) | |
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| from the Embassy Letters (1716-18) | |
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| "Cloe to Artimesa" (1720) | |
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| Monsieur Thing's Origin: or Seignor D--o's Adventures in Britain (1722) | |
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| from A Supplement to the Onania, or the Heinous Sin of Self-Pollution (c. 1725) | |
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| "The Female Cabin Boy" (c. 1730) | |
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| Translation of Sappho Fragment no. 31 ("Happy as a God is He") and no. 130 ("Dire Love, Sweet-Bitter Bird of Prey!") (1735) | |
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| from The Sappho-An. An Heroic Poem of Three Cantos, in the Ovidian Style, Describing the Pleasures which the FAIR SEX Enjoy with Each Other (c. 1735) | |
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| from Pamela (1740-41) | |
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| from Sir Charles Grandison (1753-54) | |
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| The Female Husband (1746) | |
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| from Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748-49) | |
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| "The Game of Flatts" from Satan's Harvest Home (1749) | |
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| from The Indiscreet Jewels (1748) | |
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| from The Nun (1760) | |
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| from A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke (1755) | |
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| from Anecdotes of a Convent (1771) | |
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| from "Dialogue between Sappho and Ninon de l'Enclos, in the Shades" (1773) | |
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| from The Adulteress (1773) | |
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| from A History of My Life (1789-98) | |
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| from Juliette (1792) | |
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| from the journals of Eleanor Butler (1784-1821) | |
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| "Elegy Written at the Sea-side, and Addressed to Miss Honora Sneyd" (c. 1780) | |
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| from Llangollen Vale, Inscribed to the Right Honourable Lady Eleanor Butler, and Miss Ponsonby (1796) | |
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| "In a Letter to A.R.C., On Her Wishing to be Called Anna" | |
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| "Invitation--To J.B.C." | |
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| "A Valentine" (1797) | |
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| The Nineteenth Century | |
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| from Belinda (1801) | |
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| Christabel (1816) | |
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| from Christabess: A Right Woeful Poem (1816) | |
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| from The Diaries of Anne Lister (1824-26) | |
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| "To the Lady E.B. and the Hon. Miss P., Composed in the Grounds of Plas Newydd, Near Llangollen, 1824" (1824) | |
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| from Mademoiselle de Maupin (1835) | |
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| from The Girl With the Golden Eyes (1835) | |
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| "A Young Girl Seen in Church" (1838) | |
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| "To George Sand: A Desire" (1844) | |
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| from Villette (1853) | |
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| "Lesbos" | |
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| "Damned Women 1 (Delphine and Hippolyta)" | |
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| "Damned Women 2" (1857) | |
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| Goblin Market (1862) | |
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| "Anactoria" (1866) | |
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| from Lesbia Brandon (1864-67) | |
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| Scenes of Sapphic Love (1867) | |
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| "Her Breast is Fit for Pearls" | |
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| "Her sweet Weight on my Heart a Night" | |
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| "Going--to--Her!" | |
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| "Ourselves were wed one summer--dear--" | |
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| "Precious to Me--She still shall be--" | |
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| "The Stars are old, that stood for me--" | |
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| "Frigid and sweet Her parting Face--" | |
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| "To see her is a Picture--" (1851-86) | |
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| Translation of Martial's Epigram VII.67 ("Abhorrent of All Natural Joys") from The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally Translated (1868) | |
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| from Desperate Remedies (1871) | |
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| "Since I Died" (1873) | |
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| "Felipa" (1876) | |
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| from Nana (1880) | |
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| "Paul's Mistress" (1881) | |
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| From My Secret Life (1882-1894) | |
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| "Sinfonia Eroica (To Sylvia)" | |
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| "To Lallie" | |
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| "Borderland" | |
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| "At a Dinner Party" | |
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| from Lila and Colette (1885) | |
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| from The Bostonians (1886) | |
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| "Erinna, Thou Art Ever Fair" | |
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| "Atthis, My Darling" | |
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| "Maids, Not to You" | |
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| "Power in Silence" | |
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| "Daybreak" | |
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| "My Lady Has a Lovely Rite" (1889) | |
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| from The Songs of Bilitis (1894) | |
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| from A Madman's Manifesto (1895) | |
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| "Before Dark" (1896) | |
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| from Cities of the Plain (1921) | |
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| "Tommy, the Unsentimental" (1896) | |
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| "The Lesbian Hell" (1898) | |
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| The Twentieth Century | |
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| "Crucifixion" | |
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| "Beneath the Surface" | |
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| "The Unfading" | |
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| "Vagabonds" (1900) | |
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| "Woman" | |
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| "Couplets" (1900) | |
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| "Sappho Lives Again" | |
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| "Words to my Friend" (1901) | |
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| "Kashmiri Song" | |
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| "From Behind the Lattice" (1901-1905) | |
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| "Rosabel" | |
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| "Brown Girl" (1901) | |
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| from Pandora's Box (1903) | |
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| "If You Come" (1904) | |
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| "Leves Amores" (1907) | |
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| "Friendship" (1919) | |
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| "The Spirit of Thy Singing" | |
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| "Oh! That Thy Lips Were a Goblet of Crystal" (1910) | |
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| "Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself" (1926) | |
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| "Hora Stellatrix" | |
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| "Stupidity" | |
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| "Anticipation" | |
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| "Vintage" | |
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| "Aubade" | |
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| "In a Garden" | |
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| "The Weather-Cock Points South" (1912-1919) | |
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| "The Amazon on the Fountain" (1914) | |
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| "Are You Happy?" | |
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| "Beneath My Plush Wool Plaid's Caresses" | |
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| "Tonight, Between Seven and Eight" | |
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| "How Can I Not Remember" from "The Girlfriend Poems" (1914-15) | |
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| Letter to the Amazon (1934-36) | |
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| "In Words, in Their Cold Interlacing" | |
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| "At Times Our Premonitions" | |
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| "Blindly Staring Eyes" | |
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| "You Sleep, My Companion-Lover" | |
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| "You Came In" | |
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| "I, Like a Blind Woman" (1916-32) | |
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| from Lifting Belly (1915) | |
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| "Miss Furr and Miss Skeene" (1922) | |
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| "As a Wife Has a Cow: A Love Story" from A Book Concluding with As a Wife Has a Cow: A Love Story (1926) | |
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| from The Rainbow (1915) | |
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| "A Quoi Bon Dire" | |
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| "On the Road to the Sea" | |
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| "The Road to Kerity" | |
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| "My Heart Is Lame" (1916) | |
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| from Regiment of Women (1917) | |
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| "The Fire" (1917) | |
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| from Despised and Rejected (1918) | |
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| "I Can't Feel the Sunshine" | |
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| "You Want a Lily" (1918) | |
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| Letters to Vita Sackville-West (1918-19) | |
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| from My Blue Notebooks (1919-41) | |
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| From an unpublished memoir (1920) | |
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| "Self-Epitaph, Composed by an Honest Sensualist" | |
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| "She Brought with Careless Hand" | |
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| "Tess" (1927-1934) | |
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| "A Dream of Sappho" | |
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| "Death Shall Not Ease Me of You" | |
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| "Mea Culpa" | |
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| "But If You Come to Me by Day" (1922) | |
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| from The Flower Beneath the Foot (1923) | |
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| "Fragment Thirty-Six" from Heliodora (1924) | |
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| from HERmione (1927) | |
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| from Mrs. Dalloway (1925) | |
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| from Orlando (1928) | |
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| from The Tortoise-Shell Cat (1925) | |
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| "The Pash" (1926) | |
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| from The Captive (1926) | |
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| from Dusty Answer (1927) | |
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| from Extraordinary Women (1928) | |
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| The Sink of Solitude (1928) | |
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| "Cassation" (1929) | |
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| "The Jungle" (1929) | |
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| "Prove It on Me Blues" | |
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| "B.D. Woman Blues" | |
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| "Has Anybody Seen My Corinne" | |
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| from Passing (1929) | |
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| from Strange Brother (1931) | |
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| from My Thirty Years' War (1930) | |
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| "Lesbian-Ape" from The Apes of God (1930) | |
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| from The Pure and the Impure (1932) | |
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| from Spangled Unicorn (1932) | |
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| "The Knife of the Times" (1932) | |
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| "Since the First Toss of Gale that Blew" | |
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| "Out of Your Left Eye" | |
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| "I Would Give You Alexander's Bucephalus" | |
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| "Loved with an L..." | |
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| "Drawing You, Heavy with Sleep" (1933) | |
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| "The Sea Change" (1933) | |
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| from Intimate Memories (1933) | |
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| "The Bathe" | |
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| "Two Hanged Women" (1934) | |
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| from Devoted Ladies (1934) | |
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| "Sappho or Suicide" (1936) | |
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| from Of Lena Geyer (1936) | |
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| "Breeze Anstey" (1937) | |
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| from Diana: A Strange Autobiography (1939) | |
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| "It Is Marvelous to Wake Up Together" (c. 1942) | |
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| from Two Serious Ladies (1943) | |
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| "Going to Massachusetts" (1966) | |
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| from The Friendly Young Ladies (1944) | |
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| from For Sylvia (1949) | |
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| from Olivia (1949) | |
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| "Women Are Like Geography" (1949) | |
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| from The Price of Salt (1952) | |
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| from La Batarde (1964) | |
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| "Chagrin in Three Parts" (1967) | |
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| "Zeitl and Rickel" (1968) | |
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| "Memory Is All: Alice B. Toklas" (1975) | |
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| Copyright Acknowledgments | |
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| Index of Selected Names, Titles, and Topics | |