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(3.45) | None | This anthology uncovers the scope of erotic writing by women, from Sappho in Ancient Greece to Colette and Anais Nin in France, and includes some controversial writers of today - Kathy Acker, Marguerite Duras and Marilyn Hacker. This book is arranged according to themes such as desire and taboo. |
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Contents Acknowledgements Foreword / Jeanette Winterson Introduction Invitations I Beg, You, Gongyla / Sappho O Would I Were the Salt Sea-Wind / Anonymous Unto my ryght welebelovyd Voluntyn, John Paston, Squyer, be this bill delyvered, & c. To my ryght welebelovyd cosyn, John Paston, Squyer, be this letter delyveryd, & c. / Margery Brews Letter Addressed to Henry VIII / Anne Boleyn In Imitation of Horace / Aphra Behn From Mansfield Park / Jane Austen From Memoirs of Harriette Wilson Written by Herself / Harriette Wilson Ah! Why, Because the Dazzling Sun / Emily Brontë As If I Asked a Common Alms / Emily Dickinson From A Book of Mediterranean Food / Elizabeth David Song (October, 1969) / Kath Fraser From The Handmaid's Tale / Margaret Atwood From Love, Death and the Changing of the Seasons / Marilyn Hacker 'Didn't Sappho say..." / Marilyn Hacker 'First I want to make you come..." / Marilyn Hacker 'Future Conditional' / Marilyn Hacker From The Passion / Jeanette Winterson
Romance Baucis / Erinna On a Stone at Corinth / Anonymous From Lélia / George Sand Letters to Ellen Nussey / Charlotte Brontë From Lifting Belly / Gertrude Stein Letter to Frederick Bywaters / Edith Thompson From The Well of Loneliness / Radclyffe Hall From All Passion Spent / Vita Sackville-West From The Millstone / Margaret Drabble (The Floating Poem, Unnumbered) / Adrienne Rich
Desire It Seems to Me that Man is Equal to the Gods You've Come and You — / Sappho From The Tragedie of Mariam, Faire Queene of Jewry / Elizabeth Cary Love's First Approach / 'Ephelia' The Willing Mistriss / Aphra Behn From The New Atalantis / Mary Delarivier Manley Letter to William Godwin / Mary Wollstonecraft From Claudine Married / Colette From The Delta of Venus / Anaïs Nin From The Flowering of the Rod / H.D. From Wide Sargasso Sea / Jean Rhys From The Women's Room / Marilyn French Oppenheim's Cup and Saucer / Carol Ann Duffy My Subway Lover / Wanda Honn Loving for Two / Jill Dawson
Fantasy From Miscelanae, Meditations, Memoratives / Elizabeth Grymeston A Letter to Her Husband, absent upon publick employment / Anne Bradstreet Canticles 5:6 etc. / Elizabeth Singer Rowe The Self-Examination / Anonymous, "A Lady" Wild Nights— Wild Nights / Emily Dickinson From The Mill on the Floss / George Eliot I Rode With My Darling / Stevie Smith Aria for Midsummer's Eve / Maureen Duffy From Virginia / Edna O'Brien From Breathing Water / Joan Crate
Taboo Laüstic / Marie de France From Account of the Visit Made to the Theatine Nuns, Also Known as Holy Mary of Pescia / Anonymous (Benedetta Carlini) From Abdelazar, or The Moor's Revenge / Aphra Behn From The Royal Mischief / Mary Delarivier Manley From The Grasmere Journals / Dorothy Wordsworth From Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus / Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley After Death / Christina Rossetti From The Awakening / Kate Chopin From The Delta of Venus / Anaïs Nin "The Hungarian Adventurer" "Pierre" "The Basque and Bijou"
From Heroes and Villains / Angela Carter From Putting the Great Mother Together Again, or How the Cunt Lost its Tongue / Sarah Murphy
Danger Love Song / Anonymous Les Deus Amanz / Marie de France From The First Investigation of Benedetta Carlini, 27 May 1619 and 8 July 1619 / Anonymous (Benedetta Carlini) Trial of Margaret Watson and Jean Lachlan, in the Parish of Carnwarth, for Witchcraft, by a Justiciary Court Held in Lanark / Margaret Watson A Nightmare / Christina Rossetti He Fumbles at Your Soul / Emily Dickinson A White Night / Charlotte Mew The River God / Stevie Smith From The Lesbian Body / Monique Wittig The Bloody Chamber / Angela Carter From The Calyx of Isis / Pat Califia
Frustration I Want Neither / Sappho From The Book of the City of Ladies / Christine de Pizan When I Was Fair and Young / Elizabeth Tudor, Queen of England To One Who Said I Must Not Love / Sarah Egerton The Triple League to Mrs. Susan Dove / Elizabeth Thomas The Improvisatrice / Letitia Elizabeth Landon Winter: My Secret / Christina Rossetti Bianca Among the Nightingales / Elizabeth Barrett Browning The Farmer's Bride / Charlotte Mew From The Mother of Us All / Gertrude Stein Love in Three Movements / Elizabeth Jennings From Love, Death and the Changing of the Seasons / Marilyn Hacker "Sometimes, when you're asleep…" / Marilyn Hacker From A Dash of Vanilla / Pat Califia
Voyeurism From Love Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister / Aphra Behn From The Lucky Chance / Aphra Behn Song / Mary Delarivier Manley From Villette / Charlotte Brontë From Cousin Phillis / Elizabeth Gaskell The Custard Heart / Dorothy Parker From The Lover / Marguerite Duras From The Well / Elizabeth Jolley
Consumption From Liber de Vere Fidelium Experientia / Blessed Angela of Foligno From Sonnets to Bothwell / Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland The Dart / 'Eliza' Goblin Market / Christina Rossetti From The Corn King and the Spring Queen / Naomi Mitchison From The Delta of Venus / Anaïs Nin The Spinach Song, or I Didn't Like it the First Time / Julia Lee From The Lesbian Body / Monique Wittig Greedy Baby / Alicia Ostriker From French Kiss, or A Pang's Progress / Nicole Brossard From Working Hot / Mary Fallon
Consummation From There are Seven Manners of Loving / Beatrijs of Nazareth L'Amitie. To Mrs. Mary Awbrey / Katherine Philips Song / Anne Batten Cristall From Aurora Leigh / Elizabeth Barrett Browning From The Poem of the End / Marina Tsvetayeva From Mrs. Dalloway / Virginia Woolf The Pleasure of Children / Margaret Drabble From The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec by Henri Toulouse Lautrec / Kathy Acker for lyser / Aspen Sea Change / Mary Dorcey From Love, Death and the Changing of the Seasons / Marilyn Hacker "Your face blazing above me..." / Marilyn Hacker From Sexing the Cherry / Jeanette Winterson
Loving Self Beautiful Women / Sappho May You Sleep / Sappho Maidens' Song / Anonymous Friendship, Between Ardelia and Ephelia / Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea Her — 'Last Poems' — / Emily Dickinson From Marriage and Love / Emma Goldman One Hour Mama / Ida Cox From The Laugh of the Medusa / Hélène Cixous From Of Woman Born / Adrienne Rich From This Sex Which is Not One / Luce Irigaray From The Love Letter / Annie Leclerc- From Dreaming of Dead People / Rosalind Belben
- From The Body Electric / Anne Hooper
- Expectant Mother / Penelope Shuttle
- From Dreams of the Woman Who Loved Sex / Tee Corinne
- Self / Marilyn Hacker
- Biographical Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
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