Biographies, Writings and Works of Art by Lesbians From History

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Sarah Orne Jewett (writer)
  The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett The Entire Book Online!

  Sarah Orne Jewett and Annie Adams Fields
About their life together

  
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)


Willa Cather (writer)
Willa Cather


Young and Bright Medusa by Willa Cather


Willa Cather


7 books by Willa Cather available online 


Rosa Bonheur (Artist)

Pictures of and paintings by Rosa Bonheur


Rosa Bonheur Biography (Encarta Online)


Artists Profiles-Rosa Bonheur

Picture of Rosa Bonheur
  
Arts and Aging Calendar  Rosa Bonheur

The Paintings of Rosa Bonheur
 Painted by Rosa Bonheur (1822-99) French, Watercolor, 14" x 21.5"


Rosa Bonheur Biography (Encarta Online)



Another Painting by Rosa Bonheur

 Rosa Bonheur   French, 1822-1899
The Horse Fair, ca. 1852 Oil on canvas, 10 ½ x 25"

 Rosa
Bonheur 12" x 9" by Anna Klempke  Anna Klempke was Rosa’s companion after her lover died.


Joseph Lobdell (transgender, minister)
 
Lucy Ann Lobdell and Joseph Lobdell 
[IMPORTANT Use http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com to translate from German to English. BE PATIENT, It looks like an article on Capitalism, but if you scroll down there is information about Deborah Sampson, Cora Anderson and other famous transgenders for the past  
To Translate: surf to http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com  and type http://www.so36.de/qnews/tw5.html" in the box. Choose German to english on the pull down menu Then Press translate key.  This does not translate the entire document, however, if you hold down your mouse key and drag it over the rest of the text "highlighting" it, then release at the end, go up to the edit bar on your menu at the top, drag down to copy and release, back key to babelfish and paste the rest in the box, it will translate that, the same way. 

Lena Madesin Phillips

H.D., A Brief Biography



The H.D. Homepage (Hilda Doolittle) (Links to 2 of H.D.’s Children’s stories and some poems by H.D.)


Links to H.D.’s Poetry online


Another Hilda Doolittle Webpage


Sea Poppies (A Poem by H.D.)


Links to 12 poems by H.D.


Hymen (a 47 page online book of poetry by H.D. for Bryher)


Bryer (writer)

Bryer Biography


Amy Lowell (poet)

Poetry of Amy Lowell (Poetry and a Biography)


Georgia O’Keefe

Georgia O’Keefe’s "An Orchid"


Andrea Dworkin (A Radical Lesbian Writer)

Andrea Dworkin works Online


Emily Dickenson

Emily Dickenson works online (Biographies and 460 poems online)


Charlotte Cushman (Actress)

A feminist ahead of her time (Charlotte Cushman)


Charlotte Cushman 1816 - 1876 (biography)

 
1844 daguerreotype, of the formidable actress, Charlotte Cushman as the witch Meg Merriles in the adaptation of Walter Scott's Guy Mannering


The life and times of Charlotte Cushman


Link to Charlotte Cushman, William Page Oil on canvas, 1853 28 1/2 x 22 inches
in the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution (NPG.72.15)


Bright Particular Star The Life & Times of Charlotte Cushman A Full Text Book Online and Free, about the Life of Charlotte Cushman!

Charlotte Cushman as Lady Macbeth (illustration)

Page from New York Daily Graphic

Charlotte Cushman, 1843 From an oil painting by Thomas Sully


Charlotte Cushman (Evans)(biography)

Emma Stebbins (Sculptor, Emma Stebbins was Charlotte Cushman's longtime friend and companion)

Bethesda Fountain, Angel of the Waters, 1868; Emma Stebbins, Central Park, New York City.
SARA CEDAR MILLER, Central Park Conservancy.( Sculptor Emma Stebbins was Charlotte Cushman's longtime friend and companion. One of her sculptures, Angel of the Waters, adorns Bethesda
  Fountain in New York's Central Park.)


Notes on the Bethesda Fountain (Sculpted by Emma Stebbins)


Ivy Compton-Burnett (writer)

Ivy Compton-Burnett Web page

Romaine Brooks (Artist, Photographer)

Romaine Brooks: paintings and photographs

Other Lesbians with Works Online

Notable Lesbians with Works Online


Lesbian and Bi Artists (info. No pictures)

Music

Lavendar Jane Loves Music- a great archive of lesbian musicians, pictures and discography

The Derivative Duo- Humorous Lesbian Opera (with audio files of many of their songs)



Lesbian/Feminist Music-plenty of pictures here


JOAN ARMATRADING

Pictures


Bio


Several Music Samples (Click on the speaker icon)


Jamie Anderson

Another picture

Reviews



Bios and Outlists
http://www.psn.net/~martyn/queer1.html
Queers in History- by time period or geographic location

http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/Heights/5010/outlist.html
Famous Asian/Pacific OutList

http://www.blackstripe.com/blacklist/blacklist1.html#A
Black list (famous black gays, lesbians and bisexuals)

Lesbian History
http://www.im1ru12.org/toqp/hisherstory.html
The Other Queer Page His/HerStory (many good links)

Papers
http://melissa.simplenet.com/sexuality.html
Transcending the Boundaries of Sexuality and its Implications for Queer Literature

http://www.txdirect.net/users/sassyfem/unions.html
The History of Lesbian Unions


A Spectacle in Color: The Lesbian and Gay Subculture of Jazz Age Harlem.


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Gay Men, Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transgenders in Harlem


HOMOSEXUAL AND LESBIAN NIGHTLIFE from article on The Harlem Renaissance


Generations:  A Cultural and Oral History of Lesbian and Gay Southern Life


Quotes From Women Who Love Women 

Bluestockings, Romantic Friends, Women that didn’t marry
Michael Field was the penname of Katherine Bradley,1848-1914 and her niece, Edith Cooper, 1862-1913

Poetry


'Michael Field, the Two-headed Nightingale': lesbian text as palimpsest
(Full text article 19 pages long, in acrobat format)