What lesbians do in books /

"What Lesbians do in Books is the first British anthology of critical writing about lesbians as writers, readers and as characters in literature"--Back cover.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Hobby, Elaine (Editor), White, Chris, 1963- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London : Women's Press, 1991.
Subjects:	Lesbians' writings, English > History and criticism. Lesbians' writings > History and criticism. Lesbians in literature. Women and literature. Lesbians' writings. Lesbians' writings, English. Literatur. Lesbe. Geschichte. Aufsatzsammlung. Lesbische Liebe > Motiv. Schriftstellerin. Englisch. English literature > Special subjects > Lesbianism Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Elaine Hobby, Chris White.
(1) LESBIAN BOOKS. The lesbian feminist thriller and detective novel / Paulina Palmer
Primary intensities : lesbian poetry and the reading of difference / Liz Yorke
Divine visitations : Sapphos poetry of love / Gillian Spraggs
"She was not really man at all" :the lesbian practice and politics of Edith Ellis
Towards a new cartography : Radclyffe Hall, Virginia Woolf and the working of common land / Lyndie Brimstone.
(2) LESBIANS READING. Katherine Mansfield's "Pear Tree" / Gillian Hanscombe
"The Chinese Garden" : a cautionary tale / Gabriele Griffin
Anamika / Giti Thadani.
(3) LESBIANS WRITING. Katherine Philips: Seventeenth-century lesbian poet / Elaine Hobby
Reading Genesis / Patricia Duncker
From my eyes : Zamis Publishing Poetry 1984-1988 / Dorothea Smartt
The process of writing "Three Ply Yarn / Caeia March.