Passions Between Women
PASSIONS BETWEEN WOMEN: BRITISH LESBIAN CULTURE 1668-1801 (London: Scarlet Press, 1993, paperback ISBN 1-85727-046-0) (New York: HarperCollins, 1995, paperback ISBN 0-06-092680-5). Donoghue's first book is a groundbreaking survey of printed texts on lesbian themes (trial records, newspapers, medical tracts, poems, novels, plays, etc) that were published in English between the Restoration and the end of the eighteenth century. It was a finalist in the Lambda Awards.
'Outstanding and essential' – PINK PAPER
'A well-researched book that brings out a great many fictional and real-life lesbians from the past... more than a little eye- and ear-opening.' – WASHINGTON POST