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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. In 1894, Pierre Louys unveiled Les Chansons de Bilitis to the French literary world, presenting it as a newly discovered translation of ancient Greek poetry composed by a contemporary of Sappho. The scholarly apparatus was elaborate, the archaeological provenance convincing, and the deception complete. It was also one of the most erotic, tender, and surprisingly resonant celebrations of lesbian desire in Western literature.When the hoax was exposed, it might have consigned Bilitis to a footnote in literary history. Instead, something remarkable happened. Generations of lesbian and queer women claimed the text as their own, reading themselves into its lines, finding in its imagery of women loving women a mirror that official literature refused to provide. Natalie Barney and Renee Vivien celebrated Bilitis in the lesbian salons of Paris. In 1955, Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon named the first American lesbian civil rights organization the Daughters of Bilitis, repurposing a man's fantasy into a vehicle for self-determination. The text that Louys wrote for the male gaze became, through generations of radical reading, something he never intended: a cornerstone of queer cultural identity.This new edition brings Les Chansons de Bilitis into the twenty-first century with a fresh English translation alongside a lesbian feminist reading of the text. Translator and scholar Louise Martin approaches the poems as palimpsests - texts where new meanings can be inscribed over the original without erasing what came before. The result is a dual encounter with Bilitis: first as Louys wrote her, in all the complexity and contradiction of a male author ventriloquizing female same-sex desire, and then as lesbian radical reading reveals her, a figure of autonomy, pleasure, and resistance.The collection follows Bilitis across three phases of her life. In Pamphylia, she is a girl discovering desire among other girls, her awakening sexuality woven into the natural world around her. In Mytilene, she finds in Mnasidika a love that is complete and fulfilling on its own terms, a relationship the poems present not as a phase or a substitute but as the full experience of erotic and emotional life. In Cyprus, she navigates the more complex terrain of a world that will not leave women to love as they choose.The accompanying essays situate the poems within both their historical moment and their remarkable afterlife. Louys wrote from within a patriarchal and Orientalist tradition, projecting European sexual fantasy onto an imagined ancient world. That context cannot be ignored, and this edition does not ignore it. But neither does it stop there. The lesbian feminist reading that runs alongside the translation asks what happens when we refuse the author's intention as the final word, when we read not for what Louys meant but for what the text makes possible. The answer, as generations of queer readers have already demonstrated, is more than anyone might have expected from a nineteenth century literary hoax.This edition also includes original poems by Louise Martin, composed to fill gaps in the narrative where Louys indicated untranslated material in the original French editions. These new poems, clearly marked as Imagined Fragments, maintain the voice and thematic progression of the collection while extending Bilitis's story in directions Louys left open.Bilitis: A New Interpretation is a book for readers who understand that literature belongs not only to those who write it but to those who read it, claim it, and transform it. It is for anyone who has ever found themselves in a text that was not written for them, and refused to leave. This fresh translation and feminist reading is a powerful act of literary reclamation, this edition gives Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. In 1894, Pierre Louys unveiled Les Chansons de Bilitis to the French literary world, presenting it as a newly discovered translation of ancient Greek poetry composed by a contemporary of Sappho. The scholarly apparatus was elaborate, the archaeological provenance convincing, and the deception complete. It was also one of the most erotic, tender, and surprisingly resonant celebrations of lesbian desire in Western literature.When the hoax was exposed, it might have consigned Bilitis to a footnote in literary history. Instead, something remarkable happened. Generations of lesbian and queer women claimed the text as their own, reading themselves into its lines, finding in its imagery of women loving women a mirror that official literature refused to provide. Natalie Barney and Renee Vivien celebrated Bilitis in the lesbian salons of Paris. In 1955, Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon named the first American lesbian civil rights organization the Daughters of Bilitis, repurposing a man's fantasy into a vehicle for self-determination. The text that Louys wrote for the male gaze became, through generations of radical reading, something he never intended: a cornerstone of queer cultural identity.This new edition brings Les Chansons de Bilitis into the twenty-first century with a fresh English translation alongside a lesbian feminist reading of the text. Translator and scholar Louise Martin approaches the poems as palimpsests - texts where new meanings can be inscribed over the original without erasing what came before. The result is a dual encounter with Bilitis: first as Louys wrote her, in all the complexity and contradiction of a male author ventriloquizing female same-sex desire, and then as lesbian radical reading reveals her, a figure of autonomy, pleasure, and resistance.The collection follows Bilitis across three phases of her life. In Pamphylia, she is a girl discovering desire among other girls, her awakening sexuality woven into the natural world around her. In Mytilene, she finds in Mnasidika a love that is complete and fulfilling on its own terms, a relationship the poems present not as a phase or a substitute but as the full experience of erotic and emotional life. In Cyprus, she navigates the more complex terrain of a world that will not leave women to love as they choose.The accompanying essays situate the poems within both their historical moment and their remarkable afterlife. Louys wrote from within a patriarchal and Orientalist tradition, projecting European sexual fantasy onto an imagined ancient world. That context cannot be ignored, and this edition does not ignore it. But neither does it stop there. The lesbian feminist reading that runs alongside the translation asks what happens when we refuse the author's intention as the final word, when we read not for what Louys meant but for what the text makes possible. The answer, as generations of queer readers have already demonstrated, is more than anyone might have expected from a nineteenth century literary hoax.This edition also includes original poems by Louise Martin, composed to fill gaps in the narrative where Louys indicated untranslated material in the original French editions. These new poems, clearly marked as Imagined Fragments, maintain the voice and thematic progression of the collection while extending Bilitis's story in directions Louys left open.Bilitis: A New Interpretation is a book for readers who understand that literature belongs not only to those who write it but to those who read it, claim it, and transform it. It is for anyone who has ever found themselves in a text that was not written for them, and refused to leave. This fresh translation and feminist reading is a powerful act of literary reclamation, this e Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. In 1894, Pierre Louys unveiled Les Chansons de Bilitis to the French literary world, presenting it as a newly discovered translation of ancient Greek poetry composed by a contemporary of Sappho. The scholarly apparatus was elaborate, the archaeological provenance convincing, and the deception complete. It was also one of the most erotic, tender, and surprisingly resonant celebrations of lesbian desire in Western literature.When the hoax was exposed, it might have consigned Bilitis to a footnote in literary history. Instead, something remarkable happened. Generations of lesbian and queer women claimed the text as their own, reading themselves into its lines, finding in its imagery of women loving women a mirror that official literature refused to provide. Natalie Barney and Renee Vivien celebrated Bilitis in the lesbian salons of Paris. In 1955, Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon named the first American lesbian civil rights organization the Daughters of Bilitis, repurposing a man's fantasy into a vehicle for self-determination. The text that Louys wrote for the male gaze became, through generations of radical reading, something he never intended: a cornerstone of queer cultural identity.This new edition brings Les Chansons de Bilitis into the twenty-first century with a fresh English translation alongside a lesbian feminist reading of the text. Translator and scholar Louise Martin approaches the poems as palimpsests - texts where new meanings can be inscribed over the original without erasing what came before. The result is a dual encounter with Bilitis: first as Louys wrote her, in all the complexity and contradiction of a male author ventriloquizing female same-sex desire, and then as lesbian radical reading reveals her, a figure of autonomy, pleasure, and resistance.The collection follows Bilitis across three phases of her life. In Pamphylia, she is a girl discovering desire among other girls, her awakening sexuality woven into the natural world around her. In Mytilene, she finds in Mnasidika a love that is complete and fulfilling on its own terms, a relationship the poems present not as a phase or a substitute but as the full experience of erotic and emotional life. In Cyprus, she navigates the more complex terrain of a world that will not leave women to love as they choose.The accompanying essays situate the poems within both their historical moment and their remarkable afterlife. Louys wrote from within a patriarchal and Orientalist tradition, projecting European sexual fantasy onto an imagined ancient world. That context cannot be ignored, and this edition does not ignore it. But neither does it stop there. The lesbian feminist reading that runs alongside the translation asks what happens when we refuse the author's intention as the final word, when we read not for what Louys meant but for what the text makes possible. The answer, as generations of queer readers have already demonstrated, is more than anyone might have expected from a nineteenth century literary hoax.This edition also includes original poems by Louise Martin, composed to fill gaps in the narrative where Louys indicated untranslated material in the original French editions. These new poems, clearly marked as Imagined Fragments, maintain the voice and thematic progression of the collection while extending Bilitis's story in directions Louys left open.Bilitis: A New Interpretation is a book for readers who understand that literature belongs not only to those who write it but to those who read it, claim it, and transform it. It is for anyone who has ever found themselves in a text that was not written for them, and refused to leave. This fresh translation and feminist reading is a powerful act of literary reclamation, this e Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. In 1930, a woman calling herself Mary Casal published the story of her life: her childhood in rural Massachusetts, the men who abused her, the women she loved, and the private marriage ceremony she shared with the woman she called Juno. It was the first known lesbian autobiography published in the United States. Then the book disappeared, and the woman behind the pseudonym vanished with it.Her name was Ruth Fuller Field, and her identity remained unknown for seventy years. This edition returns her extraordinary memoir to print, accompanied by three companion essays on the social world she navigated, the trauma she refused to let define her, and the pseudonym that protected her voice and erased her legacy. One of the first lesbian autobiographies printed in the United States. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Judith Earle grows up watching the house next door, waiting for the children who come and go there each summer: Roddy, golden and unreachable; Julian, brilliant and cruel to himself before he is cruel to anyone else; steady, devoted Martin; lovely, lost Mariella. She loves them all long before she understands what loving means.At Cambridge, everything changes. Jennifer Baird walks into her life and fills it entirely - the bathing in the river, the nights talking until dawn, a happiness so complete that nothing before it seems to have counted. Then Jennifer is drawn away by someone else, and Judith is left to carry what she felt back into a world that has no use for it.What follows is Judith's slow, aching negotiation with desire itself: with Roddy, who wants her only for a night; with Julian, who wants her more than she can return; with the girl she has lost and cannot stop loving. Rosamond Lehmann, twenty-six when the novel appeared in 1927, writes all of it - the longing for Jennifer, the longing for Roddy, the whole unruly want of a young woman becoming herself - with the same fearless, unclassifying tenderness.Dusty Answer is a novel about what it costs to feel everything at once, and what is left when the feeling has passed. A young woman's Cambridge years, and the boy next door and the girl who becomes her whole world - loved with the same reckless intensity and lost in the same way. Rosamond Lehmann's 1927 novel of desire, longing, and what remains. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Only fragments of Sappho survive: broken lines salvaged from two and a half thousand years of silence. In 1903, poet Renee Vivien filled the gaps not with scholarship but with devotion: a daring French translation of the ancient fragments paired with her own poems written in answer to them. This edition, translated into English for the first time by Louise Martin, brings Vivien's singular act of reclamation, one woman speaking across millennia to another, to English-language readers for the first time. A poet's translation of Sappho's fragments, paired with her own verse: Renee Vivien's landmark 1903 work, in English for the first time. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. In 1928 Radclyffe Hall published a novel about a woman who loved women, and asked the world for nothing but tolerance. Within weeks the Home Secretary had moved against it, the publisher had withdrawn it, and a magistrate had ordered every copy burned.The Well of Loneliness follows Stephen Gordon from a Worcestershire estate where she was born the wrong kind of daughter, through the ambulance columns of the Western Front, to the bars and salons of Paris, where she finds a life and a love the law will not let her keep.This edition restores the novel to the storm that met it. Fifty-six short epigraphs, drawn from the press of 1928, open the chapters in the order the case against the book actually unfolded. Reviewers, moralists, magistrates, Bernard Shaw, and Hall herself all speak in these pages, so the controversy builds alongside the story rather than around it as a separate afterword. It closes with Hall's own defense, "Why I Wrote *The Well of Loneliness*," in her words.Nearly a century later, the arguments made for and against this novel, about obscenity, art, and who gets to tell their own story, remain unsettled. This edition puts the reader back in the room where they were first made. In 1928, Radclyffe Hall's novel about a woman who loved women was banned and burned. This edition surrounds Stephen Gordon's story with the press dispatches and testimonies that met it, with 56 epigraphs of scandal, defense, and survival. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - In 1930, a woman calling herself Mary Casal published the story of her life: her childhood in rural Massachusetts, the men who abused her, the women she loved, and the private marriage ceremony she shared with the woman she called Juno. It was the first known lesbian autobiography published in the United States. Then the book disappeared, and the woman behind the pseudonym vanished with it.Her name was Ruth Fuller Field, and her identity remained unknown for seventy years. This edition returns her extraordinary memoir to print, accompanied by three companion essays on the social world she navigated, the trauma she refused to let define her, and the pseudonym that protected her voice and erased her legacy.…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Judith Earle grows up watching the house next door, waiting for the children who come and go there each summer: Roddy, golden and unreachable; Julian, brilliant and cruel to himself before he is cruel to anyone else; steady, devoted Martin; lovely, lost Mariella. She loves them all long before she understands what loving means.At Cambridge, everything changes. Jennifer Baird walks into her life and fills it entirely - the bathing in the river, the nights talking until dawn, a happiness so complete that nothing before it seems to have counted. Then Jennifer is drawn away by someone else, and Judith is left to carry what she felt back into a world that has no use for it.What follows is Judith's slow, aching negotiation with desire itself: with Roddy, who wants her only for a night; with Julian, who wants her more than she can return; with the girl she has lost and cannot stop loving. Rosamond Lehmann, twenty-six when the novel appeared in 1927, writes all of it - the longing for Jennifer, the longing for Roddy, the whole unruly want of a young woman becoming herself - with the same fearless, unclassifying tenderness.Dusty Answer is a novel about what it costs to feel everything at once, and what is left when the feeling has passed. A young woman's Cambridge years, and the boy next door and the girl who becomes her whole world - loved with the same reckless intensity and lost in the same way. Rosamond Lehmann's 1927 novel of desire, longing, and what remains. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. In 1930, a woman calling herself Mary Casal published the story of her life: her childhood in rural Massachusetts, the men who abused her, the women she loved, and the private marriage ceremony she shared with the woman she called Juno. It was the first known lesbian autobiography published in the United States. Then the book disappeared, and the woman behind the pseudonym vanished with it.Her name was Ruth Fuller Field, and her identity remained unknown for seventy years. This edition returns her extraordinary memoir to print, accompanied by three companion essays on the social world she navigated, the trauma she refused to let define her, and the pseudonym that protected her voice and erased her legacy. One of the first lesbian autobiographies printed in the United States. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. In 1930, a woman calling herself Mary Casal published the story of her life: her childhood in rural Massachusetts, the men who abused her, the women she loved, and the private marriage ceremony she shared with the woman she called Juno. It was the first known lesbian autobiography published in the United States. Then the book disappeared, and the woman behind the pseudonym vanished with it.Her name was Ruth Fuller Field, and her identity remained unknown for seventy years. This edition returns her extraordinary memoir to print, accompanied by three companion essays on the social world she navigated, the trauma she refused to let define her, and the pseudonym that protected her voice and erased her legacy. One of the first lesbian autobiographies printed in the United States. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This fresh translation and feminist reading is a powerful act of literary reclamation, this edition gives Bilitis back to the women who claimed her.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Rose Allatini's novel of pacifism and forbidden feeling, prosecuted by the British government in 1918 and out of print for most of a century, with a new introduction on its suppression and on the woman its censors failed to see.Antoinette de Courcy has spent her life falling in love with women, though nobody has explained to her that this is unusual. At thirteen it was Miss Prescot, the melancholy literature mistress the other girls made miserable. At fifteen it was Natasha, a Russian schoolfellow who understood that withdrawing her favour would keep Antoinette devoted. At twenty-three, at a hotel in Sussex, it is Hester Cawthorn, who carries a walking stick, keeps her hat low over a thin unhappy face, and warns her at their first real conversation that there is nothing to be had.Also at the hotel is Dennis Blackwood, a young composer courted by every woman in the place and interested in none of them, who watches Antoinette rather closely for reasons she does not yet understand. When war is declared and Dennis refuses military service, Antoinette follows him into a position she barely understands and cannot afford to hold, and finds herself despised by nearly everyone she knows.Allatini published the book under the name A. T. Fitzroy in May 1918. The circulating libraries banned it that month, the editor of a London weekly demanded a prosecution in September, and in October the court ordered every copy destroyed on the grounds that it discouraged enlistment. Prosecuted in 1918 for discouraging enlistment, Rose Allatini's suppressed novel follows a conscientious objector and the young woman who loves women and has not yet been told it matters. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Judith Earle grows up watching the house next door, waiting for the children who come and go there each summer: Roddy, golden and unreachable; Julian, brilliant and cruel to himself before he is cruel to anyone else; steady, devoted Martin; lovely, lost Mariella. She loves them all long before she understands what loving means.At Cambridge, everything changes. Jennifer Baird walks into her life and fills it entirely - the bathing in the river, the nights talking until dawn, a happiness so complete that nothing before it seems to have counted. Then Jennifer is drawn away by someone else, and Judith is left to carry what she felt back into a world that has no use for it.What follows is Judith's slow, aching negotiation with desire itself: with Roddy, who wants her only for a night; with Julian, who wants her more than she can return; with the girl she has lost and cannot stop loving. Rosamond Lehmann, twenty-six when the novel appeared in 1927, writes all of it - the longing for Jennifer, the longing for Roddy, the whole unruly want of a young woman becoming herself - with the same fearless, unclassifying tenderness.Dusty Answer is a novel about what it costs to feel everything at once, and what is left when the feeling has passed. A young woman's Cambridge years, and the boy next door and the girl who becomes her whole world - loved with the same reckless intensity and lost in the same way. Rosamond Lehmann's 1927 novel of desire, longing, and what remains. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …