Emma Donoghue

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Life Mask

Emma Donoghue

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2004

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Emma Donoghue

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Slammerkin

Emma Donoghue

Slammerkin: A loose gown; a loose woman. Born to rough cloth in Hogarth's London, but longing for silk, Mary Saunders's eye for a shiny red ribbon leads her to prostitution at a young age. A dangerous misstep sends her fleeing to Monmouth, and the position of household seamstress, the ordinary life of an ordinary girl with no expectations. But Mary has known freedom, and having never known love, it is freedom that motivates her. Mary asks herself if the prostitute who hires out her body is more or less free than the "honest woman" locked into marriage, or the servant who runs a household not her own? And is either as free as a man? Ultimately, Mary remains true only to the three rules she learned on the streets: Never give up your liberty. Clothes make the woman. Clothes are the greatest lie ever told.

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Other editions: Softcover - 2002, Hardcover - 2000

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Stir-Fry

Emma Donoghue

A remarkably poignant story of a young woman's exploration of her own sexuality that is "destined to become a classic in lesbian literature" (Village Voice).

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Other editions: Softcover - 2001, Hardcover - 1994

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Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins

Emma Donoghue

Acclaimed Irish author Emma Donoghue unravels 13 familiar stories and recasts them into a collection of remarkable fairy tales. Cinderella, Beauty, Rapunzel, and others are revealed in their own beguiling narratives, voices that shimmer with wisdom and truth. Their journeys take them into a strange and delightful landscape. Using the intricate patterns and oral rhythms of traditional fairy tales, Donoghue wraps age-old characters in a dazzling new skin.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1997, Hardcover - 1997

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Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins

Emma Donoghue

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Hood

Emma Donoghue

As a teenager in the late '70s, Pen O'Grady fell in love with Cara Wall. Although Cara was always engaged in unrequited love for other people, their unconventional relationship survived until their late twenties, when Cara died in a car accident. Pen's narration covers the week of the funeral and fourteen years of baffling memories. A bittersweet, sexy tale about romance and loss.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1996

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We Are Michael Field

Emma Donoghue

One of the most bizarre partnerships of all time, Michael Field was two women, Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper, aunt and niece, poets and playwrights and lovers, who wrote under their adopted pseudonym to considerable success toward the end of the 19th century. When their identity was inadvertently revealed in a review, a shocked Victorian society shunned them and they withdrew into seclusion. Drawing from their extensive diaries, Emma Donoghue chronicles a remarkable love affair between two extraordinary women who wrote dramas of war, madness, and erotic obsession, as well as lyrics declaring their love for each other.

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What Sappho Would Have Said: Four Centuries of Love Poems between Women

Emma Donoghue

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Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801

Emma Donoghue

In the tradition of Lillian Faderman's Surpassing the Love of Menand John Boswell's Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe--a groundbreaking work of lesbian scholarship that presents a revisionist and frankly sexual look at 18th-century lesbian culture.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1995, Hardcover - 1994, Softcover - 1994