Portraits to the Wall: Historic Lesbian Lives Unveiled (Cassell Lesbian & Gay) (Paperback)

by Rose Collis (Author)

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Collis sketches 12 historic English and European women who, although generally unrecognized as such, she says were lesbian. Offsetting objectors to her characterizations, she prefatorily acknowledges the always dicey problems of definitions and standards of proof when applying sexuality labels. Some of her subjects, though--French artist Rosa Bonheur, composer and suffragist Dame Ethel Smyth, and Spanish mystic and screenwriter Mercedes De Acosta--have been candid already in autobiographies. Two less famous subjects, Catherina Linck and Catherina Muhlhahn, are unambiguous because they were tried for sodomy in early-eighteenth-century Saxony; Collis makes their case the occasion to recap the history of European laws regarding lesbians. Other subjects are England's Queen Anne and Sarah Churchill, Nobel Prize-winning author Selma Lagerl"f, organic gardening innovator Eve Balfour, member of Parliament Maureen Colquhoun, Anglo-Irish antivivisectionist Frances Power Cobb, and Edy Craig, daughter of the famous English actress Ellen Terry. Marie Kuda --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Cassell (September 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0304328510
• ISBN-13: 978-0304328512
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
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