Books like Two Friends by Susan Koppelman

Name: Two Friends
Author: Susan Koppelman

A collection of eleven short stories dealing with "non-Platonic love between women" dating back from the post-Civil War early women's rights period, which includes a preface for each work. Includes writers such as Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, Mary E. Wilkins and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Writing about a wide range of subjects, they share a theme of women loving women and are examples of the beginning of lesbian literature in America.

First publish date: 1994

Authors: Susan Koppelman

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