Moll Cutpurse, Her True History

by Ellen Galford

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Delightful lesbian romp. Novel based on the life of the "feminist Robin Hood" in Elizabethan England.

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CurrerBell Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker's play The Roaring Girl (1611) is a fictionalized account of Mary Frith, popularly known as "Moll Cutpurse," who is the subject of Ellen Galford's historical fiction Moll Cutpurse Her True History. Middleton and Dekker appear as supporting characters in the Galford novel, and an episode toward the end of the Galford novel depicts a performance of The Roaring Girl with Moll in attendance.
CurrerBell Historical romances of lesbian relationships.
CurrerBell Historical romances of lesbian relationships.

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Canonical title
Moll Cutpurse, Her True History
Original publication date
1984

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LGBTQ+, Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
DDC/MDS
823.914Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction1900-1901-19991945-1999
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PR6057 .A383 .M6Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish Literature1961-2000

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