Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928

by Martha Vicinus

Book Overview

Intimate Friends explores the fascinating history of the erotic friendships of educated English and American women over the 150-year period leading up to the 1928 publication of Radclyffe Hall's landmark novel, The Well of Loneliness. Distinguished scholar Martha Vicinus explores all-female communities, liaisons between younger and older women, the female rake, and even mother-daughter affection. Women, she reveals, drew upon a rich...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226855643
• ISBN13: 9780226855646
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"