Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England by Sharon Marcus

Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England

Sharon Marcus

368 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history lgbtqia+ reflective slow-paced
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Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that described the dangerous pleasures of corporal punishment. A few had sexual relationships with eac...

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