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HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF
Lesbian
Literature
HISTORICAL
DICTIONARY
OF
MILLER
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images of (clockwise from top) Audre Lorde,
Radclyffe Hall, Angelina Weld Grimk e, and Colette
Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts, No. 8
While lesbian literature can trace its name back to the Greek poet
Sappho, who was born on the Island of Lesbos in 630 B.C., it wasnt
until the past century that the genre gained significant popularity.
More lesbian poems, novels, plays, and reference sources have been
produced during the last one hundred years than during all the previ-
ous centuries put together.
This Historical Dictionary of Lesbian Literature serves two primary func-
tions: to provide further information to those already familiar with the
field and to explain it to those discovering it for the first time. A
chronology provides a historical perspective, an introduction gives a
general yet detailed overview, and the dictionary contains several hun-
dred cross-referenced entries on important writers such as Sappho,
Colette, and Mary Wollstonecraft, styles, themes, literary movements,
publishers, and outstanding works of the genre. Completed by an
extensive bibliography, this book examines the factors influencing the
development of the lesbian identity as an interaction between readers
and writers of all kinds of literature.
MEREDITH MILLER is a senior lecturer in English at the College of
St. Mark and St. John in the United Kingdom. Her research interests
are focused on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and theo-
ries of race, gender, and sexuality.
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ISBN-13: 978-0-8108-4941--9
ISBN-10: 0-8108-4941--0
Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
Jon Woronoff, Series Editor
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6. Australian and New Zealand Cinema, by Albert Moran and Errol
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8. Lesbian Literature, by Meredith Miller, 2006.
Historical Dictionary
of Lesbian Literature
Meredith Miller
Historical Dictionaries of Literature
and the Arts, No. 8
The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Lanham, Maryland Toronto Oxford
2006
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Copyright 2006 by Meredith Miller
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Miller, Meredith, 1965
Historical dictionary of lesbian literature / Meredith Miller.
p. cm. (Historical dictionaries of literature and the arts ; no. 8)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-8108-4941-0 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Lesbians writingsBio-bibliographyDictionaries. 2. Lesbian authors
BiographyDictionaries. 3. LesbianismDictionaries. I. Title. II. Series.
PN491.3.M55 2006
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