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This was a really insightful, albeit dated, history and literary criticism of lesbians in literature from antiquity to ~1950s. It was interesting to take a bird’s eye view on the many cultural pendulum swings that are covered here. Goes into women’s struggles to be published at various times, books being censored and / or banned, the lack of women in literary criticism, and lesbian characters as depicted by both women and men.

@astralstreeting Ooh interesting, I will! This is the second recent case where I pick up a novel as my first introduction to a writer who is primarily known for poetry. I happened to see the French translation of this in a shop window and it caught my eye. Would be curious to hear impressions of her poetry :)

19th-century / turn of the 20th century women in literature continue to dominate my collection. the melodrama, the tangents, the purple prose, the way the narrative is told primarily through emotional impressions alone. putting her next to Collette on my shelf as they were neighbours in real life and maybe she'll be comforted there.

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Some light reading while I'm burned out. Need a lil popcorn novel to get through this week :')