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A pioneering lesbian romance set in the 1950s, The Price of Salt follows the budding love between two women amid societal stigma and family challenges, offering a hopeful outcome rare for its time.

Stone Butch Blues follows a butch lesbian’s life in 1970s America, blending historical detail with personal experience to explore gender, sexuality, and community within the LGBTQ movement.

A cunning con man teams with an orphaned apprentice to swindle a wealthy heiress, but when the apprentice grows attached, the plot spirals into betrayal, deception and unexpected affection in a grim London slum.

Orlando follows a nobleman who, across centuries, changes gender and transcends time, exploring themes of sexuality, identity, and the fluidity of memoir.

Annie on My Mind follows the deep friendship and emerging love between two teenage girls, set against the backdrop of a private school, as they navigate homophobia and the challenges of coming out.

Nan King, a young oyster girl, falls in love with glamorous music‑hall performer Kitty Butler, a male impersonator, and together they rise to stardom while exploring their hidden desires.

Cameron Post, a gay teen from a conservative Montana ranch town, is sent to a conversion therapy center after her family demands she change her sexual orientation.

A romantic novel about a talented woman of aristocratic background who defies Victorian expectations and commercial success while pursuing her love for other women.

The Letters of Vita Sackville‑West to Virginia Woolf compiles over 500 intimate letters spanning 1922‑1941, revealing the courtship, daily life, and literary pursuits of two of England's most celebrated women authors.

After her father’s death, young Ash is tormented by a cruel stepmother and hunts for solace in fairy tales—until she meets the dangerous fairy Sidhean and the fierce huntress Kaisa, who pull her toward a choice between fantasy and true love.

The biography of the controversial, pacifist, and feminist Vera Brittain explores her life and experiences, altering the self-portrait presented in her memoirs.

At first glance, it seems difficult to imagine two more different literary personalities than Noel Coward and Radclyffe Hall. Coward's writing is playful, sarcastic, absurd; Hall's is brooding and melancholic, rife with misery and suffering. Where she throws her head back in despair, he merely lifts an eyebrow. Yet as Terry Castle displays in her provocative new study, the two had much more in common than critics have been willing to concede. The first look at the literary and biographical link between these influential contemporaries, Noel Coward and Radclyffe Hall recounts a forgotten literary friendship and shows that Coward and Hall even make subtle, "ghostly" appearances in each others' works. This captivating tale is brought to life in a series of 45 illustrations, including photographs of Hall, Coward, and others in their social circle, along with cartoon renditions of the two from the popular press. Through its imaginative juxtaposition of two major literary figures, this provocative work illuminates how traditional ideas of the differences between male and female homosexuals shield from view a vast arena of cultural understanding. Castle pushes past stale definitions - the tragic lesbian and the witty, urbane gay man - to present a broader picture. In the process, Noel Coward and Radclyffe Hall provides a rich critical vocabulary for bridging the experiences of gays and lesbians in history, casting light upon deep-rooted stereotypes that have long separated the two.

"Witty, courageous and unconventional, Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the most controversial figures of her day. She published 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman'; travelled to revolutionary France and lived through the Terror and the destruction of the incipient French feminist movement; produced an illegitimate daughter; and married William Godwin before dying in childbed at the age of thirty-eight. Often embattled and bitterly disappointed, she never gave up her radical ideas or her belief that courage and honesty would triumph over convention."--Back cover.

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Harriet Martineau’s autobiography offers a detailed, sensitive chronicle of a 19th‑century English woman whose work spanned sociology, economics, and social reform.

A comprehensive biography of Radclyffe Hall, chronicling her lifelong journey from an unhappy childhood to the obsolescence of her celebrated novel 'Well of Loneliness', and examining her role as an English lesbian icon.

Lyndall Gordon defends Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759‑1797, founder of modern feminism, by painting her vibrant portrait and correcting her historical reputation.