- History, Lesbianism, Lesbians in literature, Sexual behavior
Where previous historians have concluded that a combination of censorship and ignorance excluded lesbian experience from written history before our era, Emma Donoghue has decisively proved otherwise.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and cool.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Emma Donoghue
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 317
- Publisher
- Perennial, HarperCollins Publishers, Scarlet Pr
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780060926809
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Grew up in Ireland, 20s in England doing a PhD in eighteenth-century literature, since then in Canada. Best known for my novel, film and play ROOM, also other contemporary and historical novels and short stories, non-fiction, theatre and middle-grade novels.
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