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Posted By yana55 5 months, 3 weeks ago in Arts & EntertainmentFor aficionados of lesbian literature, Jeannette Howard Foster is beloved, as the author of the 1956 book, Sex Variant Women in Literature. In this wonderful and historically significant book, Foster both cited and analyzed 2,500 years of lesbian love in literature ranging from Sappho to Radclyffe Hall, including along the way writers as diverse as Ovid, Swinburne, and Verlaine. In fact, according to the new biography by Joanne Passet, Howard evaluated “ an amazing 324 titles” including examples from “ English, American, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, and Portuguese literature, with the emphasis on works in English, French, and German, the languages she read fluently.” Howard dedicated over two decades of her life to the completion of Sex Variant Women in Literature , and she published the book at the age of sixty with her own money and using her own name through the vanity publisher, Vantage Press. Sex Variant Woman gives Jeanette Howard Foster the benefit of a well-researched, thorough, and engaging biography.
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How well what i not aficionados of lesbian literature.
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