history of sexuality
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Charity and Sylvia now out on Kindle!
My new book, Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America, is now available for sale on Kindle. Publisher’s Weekly calls the book “beautifully written” and “an utterly absorbing love story.” Read the full review here. Charity and Sylvia is the tale of two ordinary women who lived in an extraordinary same-sex marriage in early…
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A New World of Delights: Capri
After an hour in Naples, I had dreams of returning to rent an apartment for a month. After a morning in Capri, I had dreams of buying a villa and staying forever. I’m not the first visitor to feel that way. Virginia and Mamie Pepworth-Norton, the elderly American lesbian heroines of Vestal Fire, Compton Mackenzie’s 1927 roman…
Axel Munthe, Blue Lagoon, Capri, Compton Mackenzie, Friederich Krupp, history of food, history of sexuality, Jacques d’Adelswärd-Fersen, John Clay MacKowen, Mark Twain, Norman Douglas, Romaine Brooks, Shirley Hazzard, South Wind, Suetonius, The Innocents Abroad, Tiberius, Venus in the Kitchen, Vestal Fire
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