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3 Books To Know Lesbian Literature

Welcome to the3 Books To Knowseries, our idea is to help readers learn about fascinating topics through three essential and relevant books.

These carefully selected works can be fiction, non-fiction, historical documents or even biographies.

We will always select for you three great works to instigate your mind, this time the topic is:Lesbian Literature.

- Orlando by Virginia Woolf.

- The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall.

- Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu.Orlando: A Biography is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928. A high-spirited romp inspired by the tumultuous family history of Woolf's lover and close friend the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, it is arguably one of Woolf's most popular novels: a history of English literature in satiric form. The book describes the adventures of a poet who changes sex from man to woman and lives for centuries, meeting the key figures of English literary history. Considered a feminist classic, the book has been written about extensively by scholars of women's writing and gender and transgender studies.

The Well of Loneliness is a lesbian novel by British author Radclyffe Hall that was first published in 1928 by Jonathan Cape. It follows the life of Stephen Gordon, an Englishwoman from an upper-class family whose "sexual inversion" (homosexuality) is apparent from an early age. She finds love with Mary Llewellyn, whom she meets while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I, but their happiness together is marred by social isolation and rejection, which Hall depicts as typically suffered by "inverts", with predictably debilitating effects. The novel portrays "inversion" as a natural, God-given state and makes an explicit plea: "Give us also the right to our existence".

Carmilla is an 1872 Gothic novella by Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and one of the early works of vampire fiction, predating Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) by 26 years. First published as a serial in The Dark Blue, the story is narrated by a young woman preyed upon by a female vampire named Carmilla, later revealed to be Mircalla, Countess Karnstein (Carmilla is an anagram of Mircalla). The character is a prototypical example of the lesbian vampire, expressing romantic desires toward the protagonist, and is depicted as a trait of antagonism in line with the contemporary views of homosexuality. The story is often anthologized and has been adapted many times in film and other media.

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  1. A Room of One's Own

    Virginia Woolf

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  2. Mrs. Dalloway : Met een nawoord door Yannick Dangre

    Virginia Woolf

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  3. Over ziek zijn

    Virginia Woolf, Babs Gons

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  4. A Room of One's Own

    Virginia Woolf

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  5. Between the Acts

    Virginia Woolf

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  6. The New Dress : A Profound Tale of Insecurity, Perception, and Social Pressure

    Virginia Woolf, Zenith Horizon Publishing

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  7. Orlando : A Biography

    Virginia Woolf

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  8. Orlando: A Biography

    Virginia Woolf

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  9. The London Scene: Six Essays : Exploring the Essence of Post-War London: Essays on the City's Social and Cultural Atmosphere

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  10. 50 Clásicos que Debes Leer Antes de Morir: Un viaje literario por los tesoros de la literatura universal

    Dante Alighieri, Aristóteles, Jane Austen, Charles Baudelaire, Giovanni Boccaccio, Anne Brontë, C. Collodi, James Fenimore Cooper, Fedor Mikhaïlovitch Dostoïevski, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas, José de Espronceda, Gustave Flaubert, Sigmund Freud, Benito Pérez Galdós, Kahlil Gibran, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Victor Hugo, Thomas Hardy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Washington Irving, James Joyce, Mariano José de Larra, Jack London, Federico García Lorca, H.P. Lovecraft, Antonio Machado, Gustav Meyrink, John Stuart Mill, Amado Nervo, Friedrich Nietzsche, Solomon Northup, Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, Francisco de Quevedo, Walter Scott, William Shakespeare, Robert Louis Stevenson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jonathan Swift, Mark Twain, Miguel De Unamuno, Ramón María del Valle-Inclán, Julio Verne, Virginia Woolf, Bookish

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