Erotica: Women's Writing from Sappho to Margaret Atwood

by Margaret Reynolds (Editor)

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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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Margaret Reynolds
Editor
17+ Works 977 Members
Margaret Reynolds is a writer, academic, critic, and broadcaster. She lives in Gloucestershire and is a Senior Research Fellow at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, and was formerly a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge

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Acker, Kathy (Contributor)
Angela of Foligno (Contributor)
Aspen (Contributor)
Austen, Jane (Contributor)
Beatrijs of Nazareth (Contributor)
Behn, Aphra (Contributor)
Belben, Rosalind (Contributor)
Boleyn, Anne (Contributor)
Bradstreet, Anne (Contributor)
Brews, Margery (Contributor)
Brontë, Charlotte (Contributor)
Brontë, Emily (Contributor)
Brossard, Nicole (Contributor)
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (Contributor)
Califia, Pat (Contributor)
Carlini, Benedetta (Contributor)
Carter, Angela (Contributor)
Cary, Elizabeth (Contributor)
Chopin, Kate (Contributor)
Cixous, Hélène (Contributor)
Colette (Sidonie Gabrielle) (Contributor)
Corinne, Tee (Contributor)
Cox, Ida (Contributor)
Crate, Joan (Contributor)
Cristall, Anne Batten (Contributor)
David, Elizabeth (Contributor)
Dawson, Jill (Contributor)
de France, Marie (Contributor)
de Pizan, Christine (Contributor)
Dickinson, Emily (Contributor)
Doolittle, Hilda (H. D.) (Contributor)
Dorcey, Mary (Contributor)
Drabble, Margaret (Contributor)
Duffy, Carol Ann (Contributor)
Duffy, Maureen (Contributor)
Duras, Marguerite (Contributor)
Egerton, Sarah (Contributor)
Eliot, George (Contributor)
Eliza (Contributor)
Ephelia (Contributor)
Erinna (Contributor)
Fallon, Mary (Contributor)
Finch, Anne (Countess of Winchilsea) (Contributor)
Fraser, Kath (Contributor)
French, Marilyn (Contributor)
Gaskell, Elizabeth (Contributor)
Goldman, Emma (Contributor)
Grymeston, Elizabeth (Contributor)
Hacker, Marilyn (Contributor)
Hall, Radclyffe (Contributor)
Honn, Wanda (Contributor)
Hooper, Anne (Contributor)
Irigaray, Luce (Contributor)
Jennings, Elizabeth (Contributor)
Jolley, Elizabeth (Contributor)
Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (Contributor)
Leclerc, Annie (Contributor)
Lee, Julia (Contributor)
Manley, Mary Delarivier (Contributor)
Mew, Charlotte (Contributor)
Mitchison, Naomi (Contributor)
Murphy, Sarah (Contributor)
Nin, Anaïs (Contributor)
O'Brien, Edna (Contributor)
Ostriker, Alicia (Contributor)
Parker, Dorothy (Contributor)
Philips, Katherine (Contributor)
Queen of Scots, Mary, (Contributor)
Rhys, Jean (Contributor)
Rich, Adrienne (Contributor)
Rossetti, Christina (Contributor)
Rowe, Elizabeth Singer (Contributor)
Sackville-West, Vita (Contributor)
Sand, George (Contributor)
Sappho (Contributor)
Shelley, Mary (Contributor)
Shuttle, Penelope (Contributor)
Smith, Stevie (Contributor)
Stein, Gertrude (Contributor)
Thomas, Elizabeth (Contributor)
Thompson, Edith (Contributor)
Tsvetayeva, Marina (Contributor)
Tudor, Elizabeth (Queen of England) (Contributor)
Watson, Margaret (Contributor)
Wilson, Harriette (Contributor)
Winterson, Jeanette (Contributor)
Wittig, Monique (Contributor)
Wollstonecraft, Mary (Contributor)
Woolf, Virginia (Contributor)
Wordsworth, Dorothy (Contributor)

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Harris, James R. (Cover designer)
Schneider, Wendi (Photographer)
Winterson, Jeanette (Foreword)

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Is an abridged version of

Harriette Wilson's Memoirs: The Greatest Courtesan of Her Age by Harriette Wilson
A Book of Mediterranean Food by Elizabeth David
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
Lélia by George Sand
Lifting Belly by Gertrude Stein
The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West
The Millstone by Margaret Drabble
The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry: with The Lady Falkland: Her Life, by One of Her Daughters by Elizabeth Cary
Claudine Married by Colette
Delta of Venus by Anaïs Nin
The Flowering of the Rod by H. D.
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
The Women's Room by Marilyn French
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
Virginia: A Play by Edna O'Brien
Breathing Water by Joan Crate
Abdelazer, or The Moor's Revenge by Aphra Behn
The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals by Dorothy Wordsworth
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Heroes and Villains by Angela Carter
The Lesbian Body by Monique Wittig
The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan
The Mother of Us All [Vocal Score] by Virgil Thomson
Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister by Aphra Behn
The Lucky Chance; or, The Alderman's Bargain by Aphra Behn
Villette by Charlotte Brontë
Cousin Phillis by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Lover by Marguerite Duras
The Well by Elizabeth Jolley
Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons by Marilyn Hacker
The Love Letters of Mary Queen of Scots to James Earl of Bothwell: With Her Love Sonnets and Marriage Contracts (Being the Long-Missing Originals from ... of Buchanan, Goodall, Robertson, Hume ... by Mary Queen of Scots
The Corn King and the Spring Queen by Naomi Mitchison
French Kiss, or A Pang's Progress by Nicole Brossard
Working Hot by Mary Fallon
On Seven Ways of Holy Love by Beatrijs van Nazareth
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec by Kathy Acker
Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
Marriage and Love by Emma Goldman
The Laugh of the Medusa by Hélène Cixous
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution by Adrienne Rich
This Sex Which Is Not One by Luce Irigaray
Dreaming of Dead People by Rosalind Belben
The Body Electric by Anne Hooper
Dreams of the Woman Who Loved Sex by Tee Corinne
Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Canonical title
Erotica: Women's Writing from Sappho to Margaret Atwood
Original title
Erotica: Women's Writing from Sappho to Margaret Atwood
Alternate titles
Erotica: Anthology of Women's Writings
Original publication date
1990
Dedication
For J., who explains

And for the bright days:
when the sun diminishes the pupils to pinpricks
and we can hardly see.
First words
Some years ago a magazine asked me if I would agree to be photographed naked.
--Foreword
Original language
English

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Genres
Fiction and Literature, LGBTQ+
DDC/MDS
808.803538082 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism Composition Literature Collections > By Theme Humanity Alienation Erotica
LCC
PN6071 .E7 .E685 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Collections of general literature
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