Sapphic Modernities

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The Sapphist in the City: Lesbian Modernist Paris and Sapphic Modernity

Chapter 4 “The Woman Who Does”: A Melbourne Motor Garage Proprietor

Chapter 5 Sapphic Smokers and English Modernities

Chapter 6 “Woman’s Place Is the Home”: Conservative Sapphic Modernity

Chapter 7 Art Deco Hybridity, Interior Design, and Sexuality between the Wars Two Double Acts: Phyllis Barron and Dorothy Larcher/Eyre de Lanux and Evelyn Wyld

Chapter 8 Impossible Objects: Waiting for the Revolution in Summer Will Show

Chapter 9 Virginia Woolf’s Greek Lessons

Chapter 10 “A Sudden Orgy of Decadence”: Writing about Sex between Women in the Interwar Popular Press

Chapter 11 Edith Ellis, Sapphic Idealism, and The Lover’s Calendar (1912)

Chapter 12 Séances and Slander: Radclyffe Hall in 1920

Chapter 13 Telling It Straight: The Rhetorics of Conversion in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Hotel and Freud’s Psychogenesis

Chapter 14 Mary Butts’s “Fanatical Pédérastie”: Queer Urban Life in 1920s London and Paris