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List Of Lesbian Literature
This is a List of lesbian-themed fiction. It includes books from the 18th century through the 21st century. It also includes lists of works by genre, a list of characters that make recurring appearances in fiction series, and a list of lesbian and feminist publishing houses. Fiction and drama (2nd century) *'' Dialogues of the Courtesans'', Lucian of Samosata Fiction and drama (18th century) *'' Fanny Hill'', John Cleland (1748) – Fanny has an encounter with Phoebe, a prostitute *'' La Religieuse'', Denis Diderot (1796) – a Reverend Mother wants to seduce a nun Fiction and drama (19th century) *''Mademoiselle Maupin'', Théophile Gautier (1835) *''Carmilla'', Sheridan Le Fanu (1872) *'' Der Liebe Lust und Leid der Frau zur Frau'' (1895) – the only known exemplar is in the Berlin State Library ( RVKO number Yx 27911). *''Nana'', Émile Zola (1880), – an extended description of Chez Laure, a Parisian restaurant that caters to a lesbian clientele; the relationship o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dialogues Of The Courtesans
Dialogue (sometimes spelled dialog in American English) is a written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people, and a literary and theatrical form that depicts such an exchange. As a philosophical or didactic device, it is chiefly associated in the West with the Socratic dialogue as developed by Plato, but antecedents are also found in other traditions including Indian literature. Etymology The term dialogue stems from the Greek διάλογος (''dialogos'', conversation); its roots are διά (''dia'': through) and λόγος (''logos'': speech, reason). The first extant author who uses the term is Plato, in whose works it is closely associated with the art of dialectic. Latin took over the word as ''dialogus''. As genre Antiquity and the Middle Ages Dialogue as a genre in the Middle East and Asia dates back to ancient works, such as Sumerian disputations preserved in copies from the late third millennium BC, Rigvedic dialogue hymns and the ''Mahabh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal
Lydia Dmitrievna Zinovieva-Annibal (russian: Ли́дия Дми́триевна Зино́вьева-Анниба́л) (1866–1907) was a Russian prose writer and dramatist.Chris Tomei, 'Lidia Dmitrievna Zinov`eva-Annibal', in Katherine Wilson, ed., ''An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers'', Vol. 2, 1991, pp.1382-3 Annibal was her mother's maiden name. Biography She was born to a noble family. Her grandfather was Senator , her uncle was General and her brother, A.D. Zinoviev became the Governor of Saint Petersburg. Her mother was the Baroness Weimar and a descendant of Abram Petrovich Gannibal. Most of her education was from private tutors. She did attend the Saint Petersburg women's gymnasium for a short time, but was expelled for being "obstinate". In 1884, she married one of her tutors, Konstantin Shvarsalon. Under his influence, she developed an interest in socialism and became associated with the Narodniks. Clandestine meetings were often held at their home. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Captive (play)
''The Captive'' (french: La Prisonnière) is a 1926 play by Édouard Bourdet. The three-act melodrama was among the first Broadway theatre, Broadway plays to deal with lesbianism and caused a scandal in New York City. The play was shut down after 160 performances and prompted the adoption of a state law dealing with obscenity. Synopsis Irène is a lesbian tortured by her love for Madame d'Aiguines, but pretending engagement to Jacques. Though Irène attempts to leave Mme. d'Aiguines and marry Jacques, she returns to the relationship, saying that it is "a prison to which I must return captive, despite myself". Mme. d'Aiguines is not seen in the play, but leaves behind nosegays of Viola (plant), violets for Irène, as a symbol of her love. Broadway cast *Ann Trevor – Gisele De Montcel *Winifred Fraser – Mlle. Marchand *Minna Phillips – Josephine *Norman Trevor – De Montcel *Helen Menken – Irène De Montcel *Basil Rathbone – Jacques Virieu *Arthur Lewis – Georges *Ann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaus Mann
Klaus Heinrich Thomas Mann (18 November 1906 – 21 May 1949) was a German writer and dissident. He was the son of Thomas Mann, a nephew of Heinrich Mann and brother of Erika Mann, with whom he maintained a lifelong close relationship, and Golo Mann. He is well known for his 1936 novel, ''Mephisto''. Background Born in Munich, Klaus Mann was the son of German writer Thomas Mann and his wife, Katia Pringsheim. His father was baptized as a Lutheran, while his mother was from a family of secular Jews. Career Mann began writing short stories in 1924 and the following year became drama critic for a Berlin newspaper. His first literary works were published in 1925. Mann's early life was troubled. His homosexuality often made him the target of bigotry, and he had a difficult relationship with his father. After only a short time in various schools, he traveled with his sister Erika Mann, a year older than himself, around the world, visiting the U.S. in 1927; they reported on the tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anja Und Esther
Aanya, Anya or Anja is a given name. The names are feminine in most cultures especially Indian, and unisex in several African and European countries. Origins and variant forms * Aanya or Anya is an Indian name that means inexhaustible, limitless and resurrection. It is of Sanskrit origin. * Aanya or Anya in Hebrew means favoured by God. *Anya (Аня) is a Russian diminutive of Anna. *Ania is the spelling in Polish, which is also a diminutive of Anna. *The spelling Anja is common in Croatian, Norwegian, Danish, German, Swedish, Finnish, Dutch, Afrikaans, Slovenian, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Bosnian, Serbian and Kurdish. *Anya is sometimes used as an anglicisation of the Irish name Áine *Anya is an old Kurdish name. It means "strength" or "power". *Anya is a Hungarian word for "mother". *Anya is a Nigerian Igbo name, and also word for "eye." *Anya (ⴰⵏⵢⴰ) is an Amazigh/Berber name. It means "rhythm" or "melody" in Berber languages. People with the given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maximiliane Ackers
Maximiliane Ackers (Sept. 24, 1896 in Saarbrücken – April 17, 1982 in Glonn) was a lesbian German author and actress famous for writing lesbian fiction. Biography Ackers was an actress in theater and cabarets in Göttingen, Riga, and Berlin. In the early 1920s, Ackers began working in films, writing and starring in the silent film ''Burning Country'' (''Brennendes Land''). In 1921, she was in the cast of ''Florentine Nights: the Adventures of the Count of Costa'' (''Florentinische Nächte: Die Abenteuer der Gräfin da Costa''), written by Heinrich Heine. Ackers moved to Hannover in 1927 with her partner, the artist Irma Johanna Schäfer; they moved to the small town of Glonn in 1935. Ackers died in Glonn in 1982. ''Freundinnen'' Ackers wrote ''Girlfriends: a Novel (about Women) (Freundinnen: Ein Roman (unter Frauen)),'' published in Hannover in 1923 and 1925 and in Berlin in 1927 and 1928. The novel explores lesbian desire in the setting of the artistic and theatrical soci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sholem Asch
Sholem Asch ( yi, שלום אַש, pl, Szalom Asz; 1 November 1880 – 10 July 1957), also written Shalom Ash, was a Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language who settled in the United States. Life and work Asch was born Szalom Asz in Kutno, Congress Poland to Moszek Asz (1825, Gąbin – 1905, Kutno), a cattle-dealer and innkeeper, and Frajda Malka, née Widawska (born 1850, Łęczyca). Frajda was Moszek's second wife; his first wife Rude Shmit died in 1873, leaving him with either six or seven children (the exact number is unknown). Sholem was the fourth of the ten children that Moszek and Frajda Malka had together. Moszek would spend all week on the road and return home every Friday in time for the Sabbath. He was known to be a very charitable man who would dispense money to the poor. Upbringing Born into a Hasidic family, Sholem Asch received a traditional Jewish education. Considered the designated scholar of his siblings, his parents dream ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Margueritte
Victor Margueritte (1 December 186623 March 1942) was a French novelist. He was the younger brother of Paul Margueritte (1860–1918). Life He and his brother were born in Algeria. They were the sons of General Jean Auguste Margueritte (1823–1870), who after a career in Algeria was mortally wounded in the great cavalry charge at Sedan and died in Belgium on 6 September 1870. An account of their father's life was published by Paul as ''Mon père'' (1884; enlarged ed., 1897). The names of the two brothers are generally associated, on account of their collaboration. Victor entered his father's regiment, the Chasseurs d'Afrique, in 1888, and served in the army until 1896, when he resigned his commission. He was already known by some volumes of poetry, and by a translation from Calderon (, played at the Odéon, 1898) when he began to collaborate with his brother. Together they worked on several novels and historical works. Victor Margueritte wrote several theatrical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bachelor Girl (novel)
__NOTOC__ ''The Bachelor Girl'' (french: La Garçonne) is a novel by Victor Margueritte first published in 1922. An English translation was first published in 1923 by Alfred A. Knopf. It deals with the life of a young woman who, upon learning that her fiancé is cheating on her, decides to live life freely and on her own terms. Amongst other things, this included having multiple sexual partners, both male and female. The title translates as ''The Tomboy''. The title addresses the somewhat ambiguous realm between definite gender roles, e.g. where a Judeo-Christian patriarchal society might place a free-thinking, free-living woman in its social strata. Although the theme is not particularly shocking in the present day, at the time it was considered quite scandalous; it even caused the author to lose his Legion of Honour. It has been adapted into a film four times, the most notably in 1936 Events January–February * January 20 – George V of the United Kingdom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Elisabet Weirauch
Anna Elisabet Weirauch (August 7, 1887 – December 21, 1970) was a German author. Weirauch was an important figure for lesbians in Germany in the early 1900s, as well as for lesbians in the 1970s-1980s following an English translation. Her most well-known work is ''Der Skorpion,'' which was a significant piece of lesbian literature which broke from traditional peers in the genre. Personal life Anna Elisabet Weirauch was born in Galati, Romania on August 7, 1887. Both of Anna's parents were Berlin writers, and her father was also the founder of the Romanian State Bank. She was the youngest of four children. Anna lived in Romania until her father's death in 1891. Then, she moved to Germany with her mother, first to Thuringia and then to Berlin in 1893. She then enrolled in Höhere Töchterschule where she was trained in acting and singing. From 1906 until 1914, Weirauch was a member of Max Reinhardt’s prestigious acting company at Germany's State Theatre ( Deutsche Theater ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clemence Dane
Clemence Dane CBE is the pseudonym of Winifred Ashton (21 February 1888 – 28 March 1965), an English novelist and playwright. Life and career After completing her education, Dane went to Switzerland to work as a French tutor, but returned home after a year. She studied art in London and Germany. After the First World War, she taught at a girls' school and began writing. She took the pseudonym "Clemence Dane" from the church, St Clement Danes on the Strand, London. Her first novel, '' Regiment of Women,'' written in 1914, was a study of life in a girls' school. Michael Cox and Jack Adrian, ''The Oxford Book of Historical Stories''. Oxford;Oxford University Press, 1994. (p.436). In 1919 she wrote ''Legend'', the story of a group of acquaintances who debate the meaning of a dead friend's life and work. Dane's 1921 play, '' A Bill of Divorcement'', tells the story of a daughter who cares for her deranged father and faces the fact that his mental illness may be hereditary. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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