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050 00 $aPS648.L47$bT86 1994
082 00 $a813/.4080353$220
245 00 $aTwo friends and other nineteenth-century lesbian stories by American women writers /$cedited and with an introduction by Susan Koppelman.
260 $aNew York :$bMeridian,$c[1994], ©1994.
263 $a9408
300 $aviii, 242 pages ;$c21 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
500 $aBarnard Library copy: Barnard Alum Collection.$5NNC
505 0 $aAphra Behn. Sir Patient Fancy (1678). Notes to Sir Patient Fancy -- Mary Griffith Pix. The Spanish Wives (1696). Notes to The Spanish Wives -- Susanna Centlivre. A Bold Stroke for a Wife (1718). Notes to A Bold Stroke for a Wife -- Mercy Otis Warren. The Group (1775). Notes to The Group -- Frances Burney. The Witlings (1779). Notes to The Witlings -- Hannah Cowley. The Belle's Stratagem (1780). Notes to The Belle's Stratagem -- Elizabeth Inchbald. Such Things Are (1787). Notes to Such Things Are.
520 $aWomen playwrights of the Restoration and eighteenth century were bawdy and proper, apologetic and defiant, often derided and occasionally praised. The seven women represented in this groundbreaking anthology - the only collection of Restoration and eighteenth-century plays devoted exclusively to women - had but one thing in common: the desire to ignore convention and write for the stage.
520 8 $aIn 1660, when theatres in England reopened after years of Puritan repression, women trod the boards as actors for the very first time. By the end of the century they had stormed and breached another bastion of the male domain and become dramatists as well. Most available collections of plays from the period exclude them; traditional criticism overlooks or diminishes them. But their works, as seen here, hold their own against the most popular productions for the theater from 1678 to 1787, and do it with a distinctively female spirit.
520 8 $aEach of these English women, and the one American, Mercy Otis Warren, legitimized the profession of playwright for their sex. They were the genre's prolific women pioneers whose body of work has remained unmatched until the twentieth century.
650 0 $aLesbians$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008106911
650 0 $aLesbians' writings, American.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87000881
650 0 $aErotic stories, American$xWomen authors.
700 1 $aKoppelman, Susan.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83185844
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS648.L47$iT86 1994
852 00 $bbar$hPS648.L47$iT86 1994
852 00 $bbar$hPS648.L47$iT86 1994