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Best Books on Sapphic Modernism

recommended by Anna Hill

Sapphic Modernism is an important part of Modernism as a whole; it’s an interesting and non-conforming section of literary criticism and can shed new light on Modernist cultural productions. the following list includes literary criticism, historical non fiction and modernist novels.

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    Sapphic Modernities: Sexuality, Women and National Culture
    by Edited by Laura Doan and Jane Garrity

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    Ladies Almanack (The Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life and Literature Series)
    by Djuna Barnes

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    Women Lovers, or The Third Woman
    by Natalie Clifford Barney

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    Paris Was a Woman: Portraits from the Left Bank
    by Andrea Weiss

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    The Well of Loneliness (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Radclyffe Hall

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