Intimate Friends 2nd edition  Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928
Intimate Friends 2nd edition 9780226855646 0226855643
Details about this item Intimate Friends: Intimate Friends
explores the fascinating history of the erotic friendships of
educated English and American women over the 150-year period
leading up to the 1928 publication of Radclyffe Hall’s landmark
novel, The Well of Loneliness. Distinguished scholar Martha
Vicinus explores all-female communities, liaisons between
younger and older women, the female rake, and even mother-
daughter affection. Women, she reveals, drew upon a rich
religious vocabulary to describe elusive and complex erotic
feelings.  Drawing upon diaries, letters, and other archival
sources, Vicinus brings to life a variety of well-known and
historically less recognized women, ranging from the predatory
Ann Lister (who documented her sexual activities in code); to
Mary Benson (the wife of the Archbishop of Canterbury); to the
coterie of wealthy Anglo-American lesbians living in