Britannia's Glory: A History of 20th Century Lesbians FROM THE PUBLISHER
A highly readable and comprehensive political history of lesbianism in the twentieth century, Britannia's Glory narrates the lives of individual women; a history of lesbians and the First World War; Radclyffe Hall and The Well of Loneliness trial; lesbian life in the cosmopolitan 1930s; lesbian participation in the Second World War effort; lesbians in the 1950s; Esme Langley and Arena Three; and lesbian politics since the 1970s.
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Traces the lives of individual lesbians against the background of the politics and history of the era in which they lived. Documenting the long tradition of diversity, action, success, and pride, the author discusses lesbians in connection with suffragists, the outbreak of war, the time period afterr the Great War, Radclyffe Hall, life in the 1930s, the second world war, and the 1950s. Distributed in the US by Books International. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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