The breadth of works covered is astonishing, and it clearly took a huge amount of work. It’s just that somehow our history has been hidden from us.Įmma Donoghue excavates this masterfully. Desire between women has always existed, and it’s been written about throughout time. We are taught that lesbian literary history begins with Radclyffe Hall, with Sappho a distant anomaly. Ovid? Shakespeare? Apparently every author who was anyone wrote lesbian love stories and I was somehow not aware of it. When I posted a quote on tumblr, I suggested the subtitle of Inseparable should be Or: How All the Authors You’ve Ever Heard of Wrote Lesbian Love Stories and No One Told You and I stick by that. Typically when I do this, I end up with half a page of notes. As I was reading it, I wrote down the page numbers where there were quotes I wanted to post on my LesLit tumblr, as well as books I wanted to add to my TBR list, and thoughts/comments I had. I don’t think I can properly express how much I adored this book.
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