A Short History of Lesbian Literature

Join me for a discussion of important works of lesbian Sapphic fiction written in English during the twentieth century. Celebrate Pride Month all year round.

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AUTHORS AND BOOKS MENTIONED:
(NOTE: just because I mention authors here does not mean they identify as lesbian, or that I identify them that way)
Sappho
The Bostonians by Henry James
Vernon Lee
Amy Levy
Kate Chopin
Emily Dickinson
Charlotte Bronte
Regiment of Women by Clemence Dane (Winifrid Ashton)
Dusty Answer by Rosamunde Lehmann
The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
Passing by Nella Larsen
Virginia Woolf
Vita Sackville-West
The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
Carson McCullers
Olivia by Dorothy Strachey
Diana: A Strange Autobiography by Diana Frederics (Frances Rummell)
Odd Girl Out and other books in the Beebo Brinker Chronicles by Ann Bannon
The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule
Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing by May Sarton
Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
Loving Her by Anne Allen Shockley
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde
The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
Annie On My Mind by Nancy Garden
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Gertrude Stein

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