inseparable desire between women in literature

(on the concept of friendship between men and women in eighteenth-century English fiction) from the University of Cambridge. in English and French from University College Dublin, and in 1997 a Ph.D. In 1990 she earned a first-class honours B.A. She attended Catholic convent schools in Dublin, apart from one year in New York at the age of ten. At 34, she has published six books of fiction, two works of literary history, two anthologies, and two plays.īorn in Dublin, Ireland, on 24 October 1969, Emma is the youngest of eight children of Frances and Denis Donoghue. As an introduction to literature most of us would never find for ourselves, it corrects the cultural myopia that has limited the average reader's knowledge of lesbian fiction to Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle and Radclyffe Hall's Well of Loneliness…Įmma Donoghue is an award-winning Irish writer who lives in Canada. From Chaucer and Shakespeare, Sade, Balzac, Thomas Hardy and Radclyffe Hall to Agatha Christie, Patricia Highsmith and Sarah Waters, Inseparable is a landmark exploration of love between women in Western literature, and a highly entertaining investigation of the 'unspeakable subject.'Įditorial Reviews Donoghue's adroit commentary, along with her chronologically organized bibliography, makes Inseparable necessary for scholars and enlightening and often amusing for anyone else. Donoghue excavates the long-obscured tradition of friendship between women, one that is surprisingly central to our cultural history. Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature Paperback details from bookaddaĮmma Donoghue, consummate scholar and novelist of astonishing originality, examines how desire between women in literature has been portrayed?from schoolgirls and vampires to runaway wives, from cross-dressing knights to contemporary murderesses.

Inseparable desire between women in literature