Product Description: A comprehensive political history of lesbianism in the 20th century, this work looks at: lesbians and the suffrage movement; lesbians and the First World War; Radclyffe Hall and "The Well of Loneliness" trial; lesbian life in the cosmopolitan 1930s; lesbian participation in the Second World War effort; lesbians in the 1950s; Esme Langley and "Arena Three"; and lesbian politics since the 1970s...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A comprehensive political history of lesbianism in the 20th century, this work looks at: lesbians and the suffrage movement; lesbians and the First World War; Radclyffe Hall and "The Well of Loneliness" trial; lesbian life in the cosmopolitan 1930s; lesbian participation in the Second World War effort; lesbians in the 1950s; Esme Langley and "Arena Three"; and lesbian politics since the 1970s...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Penelope Fitzgerald's fascinating porttrait of Bloomsbury's saddest poet. Charlotte Mew (1869--1928) was a poet with a formidable reputation who, as Virginia Woolf put it, was 'very good and interesting and unlike anyone else' and who wrote some of the best English poems of the twentieth century...read more

Product Description: Book by VALENTINE ACKLAND

Fifteen gay women discuss their childhood, family life, work, friends, relationships, and involvement in political and social causes

""Alkarim Jivani has fashioned a lively introduction to our queer brothers and sisters across the Atlantic."" -- Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco, CA""An interesting primary source for comprehensive gay and lesbian collections."" -- Library JournalIt's Not Unusual is a lively, anecdotal account of lesbian and gay Britain told through the testimony of those who lived through it all. What it was like to attend West End premieres in the Twenties with a monocled, cross-dressed Radclyffe Hall. What signs and signals lesbians and gay men used to recognize each other in the Thirties. How London became a ""vast double bed"" during the blackout. Why camp humor defused tension among soldiers under fire during the Second World War. What it felt like to undergo ""treatment"" at the hands of psychiatrists armed with injections and emetics during the repressive Fifties. How, in the Sixties, the long battle for law reform was fought and won. How gay men and lesbians partied through the Seventies and rallied together in the Eighties, and what issues concern them in the Nineties.The clothes they wore, the books they read, the music they enjoyed, the slang they used, the people they loved, the things that made them laugh, and the things that made them cry are all vividly recalled. The result is a poignant and powerfully told history that casts a new light on Britain in our century. (view table of contents)

Relates the lives of the two young Irishwomen who defied convention and their families to live together in England

A biography of the author of 'The King must die' discusses her harsh upbringing, her scholarship years at Oxford, her work as a nurse during World War II, her writing, and her life in South Africa

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Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Explores the connections between the writings and colorful lifestyle of Radclyffe Hall, a best-selling lesbian poet and novelist whose flamboyant antics raised many eyebrows during the early twentieth century. Reprint. K.

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Product Description: More than a quarter of a century has elapsed since the death of Vernon Lee (Violet Paget), who was born in 1856 and died in 1935, but this is the first biography of one of the most brilliant and gifted women of her time. Vernon Lee emerges from Mr...read more

Biography of the aunt and niece who wrote together under the pseudonym of Michael Field. (view table of contents)