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Two friends and other nineteenth-century lesbian stories by American women writers

Title
Two friends and other nineteenth-century lesbian stories by American women writers / edited and with an introduction by Susan Koppelman.
Publication
New York : Meridian, [1994], ©1994.

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Koppelman, Susan.
Description
viii, 242 pages; 21 cm
Summary
  • Women playwrights of the Restoration and eighteenth century were bawdy and proper, apologetic and defiant, often derided and occasionally praised. The seven women represented in this groundbreaking anthology - the only collection of Restoration and eighteenth-century plays devoted exclusively to women - had but one thing in common: the desire to ignore convention and write for the stage.
  • In 1660, when theatres in England reopened after years of Puritan repression, women trod the boards as actors for the very first time. By the end of the century they had stormed and breached another bastion of the male domain and become dramatists as well. Most available collections of plays from the period exclude them; traditional criticism overlooks or diminishes them. But their works, as seen here, hold their own against the most popular productions for the theater from 1678 to 1787, and do it with a distinctively female spirit.
  • Each of these English women, and the one American, Mercy Otis Warren, legitimized the profession of playwright for their sex. They were the genre's prolific women pioneers whose body of work has remained unmatched until the twentieth century.
Subject
  • Lesbians > Fiction
  • Lesbians' writings, American
  • Erotic stories, American > Women authors
Note
  • Barnard Library copy: Barnard Alum Collection.
Contents
Aphra Behn. Sir Patient Fancy (1678). Notes to Sir Patient Fancy -- Mary Griffith Pix. The Spanish Wives (1696). Notes to The Spanish Wives -- Susanna Centlivre. A Bold Stroke for a Wife (1718). Notes to A Bold Stroke for a Wife -- Mercy Otis Warren. The Group (1775). Notes to The Group -- Frances Burney. The Witlings (1779). Notes to The Witlings -- Hannah Cowley. The Belle's Stratagem (1780). Notes to The Belle's Stratagem -- Elizabeth Inchbald. Such Things Are (1787). Notes to Such Things Are.
ISBN
  • 0452011108 (pbk.)
  • 9780452011199 (pbk.)
LCCN
94003896
OCLC
  • 29797992
  • ocm29797992
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries