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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.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PS648.L47 T86 1994 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- 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
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Short stories.
- Fiction.
- Romans.
- Note
- "A Meridian Book".
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Introduction -- My visitation / by Rose Terry -- Since I died / by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps -- Felipa / by Constance Fenimore Woolson -- My Lorelei / by Octave Thanet (Alice French) -- Miss Grief / by Constance Fenimore Woolson -- Two friends / by Mary E. Wilkins (Freeman) -- The long arm / by Mary E. Wilkins (Freeman) -- The falling in love of Fedora / by Kate Chopin -- There and here / by Alice Brown -- Martha's lady / by Sarah Orne Jewet -- Max--or his picture / by Octave Thanet (Alice French) -- A note on the text.
- ISBN
- 0452011191
- 9780452011199
- 0452011108
- 9780452011106
- LCCN
- 94003896
- OCLC
- ocm29797992
- 29797992
- SCSB-8959297
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library