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Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
General Introduction: Strategies for Liberation
1. The Mute Sin
The Vere Street brothel case, 1810
’H.Smith’, ‘A few words about margeries—the way to know the beasts—their haunts etc.’, c. 1850
Anon, ‘A celebrated slang consarn, as chaunted at various lush cribs’, c. 1833
Gilbert and Sullivan, Bunthorne’s recitative and song, 1881
Eliza Lynn Linton, from ‘The Epicene Sex’, 1883
M.D.O’Brien, from Socialism and Infamy, 1909
2. Law
Offences Against the Person Act 1828
Edward E.Deacon, from Digest of the Criminal Law of England, 1831
Humphry W.Woolrych, ‘Sodomy and bestiality’, 1832
The fall of the Marquess of Londonderry, 1822
Candler and Doughty, 1822
The Bishop of Clogher and the soldier, 1822
R v.Robert Reekspear, 1832
The convict Attrell, 1833
R v. Wall, 1833
R v.Nicoll, 1833
R v. Gatehouse and Dowley, 1848
R v. Allen, 1848
Offences Against the Person Act 1861
R v.Boulton, Park, Hurt and Fiske, 1870
R v.Ransford, 1874
The Wilde trials, 1895
John Addington Symonds, ‘Suggestions on the subject of sexual inversion in relation to law and education’, 1896
3. Science
Edmund Gosse, ‘Neurasthenia’, 1911
John Addington Symonds, from A Problem in Modern Ethics, 1896
John Addington Symonds to Henry Havelock Ellis, 1 December 1892
John Addington Symonds to Edward Carpenter, 29 December 1892
Havelock Ellis and John Addington Symonds, from Sexual Inversion, 1897
Xavier Mayne, from The Intersexes: A History of Simisexualism as a Problem in Social Life, 1909
Mrs Havelock Ellis, from ‘Eugenics and the mystical outlook’, 1911
Mrs Havelock Ellis, from ‘Eugenics and spiritual parenthood’, 1911
4. Modes of Defence
Histories of the homosexual
Edward Carpenter, from Homogenic Love, and its Place in a Free Society, 1894
Richard Burton, ‘Pederasty’, from the ‘Terminal Essay’, The Thousand Nights and a Night, 1885
Charles Kains-Jackson, ‘The New Chivalry’, 1894
Greek love
William Cory, ‘Desiderato’, 1858
Edward Cracroft Lefroy, ‘A Palaestral Study’, 1885
S.S.Saale, ‘Sonnet’, 1890
John Addington Symonds, ‘The Dantesque and Platonic Ideals of Love’, 1893
John Addington Symonds, from A Problem in Greek Ethics, 1883
John Addington Symonds, ‘The legend of Apollo’, 1895
Edward Cracroft Lefroy, ‘Hylas’, 1885
Roden Noel, ‘Ganymede’, 1868
Michael Field, Long Ago XXVII, 1889
Oscar Wilde, ‘The Disciple’, 1905
Edmund Gosse, ‘Greece and England’, n.d.
A.C.Swinburne, ‘Sapphics’, 1866
Gaveston and Mr W.H.
Walter Pater, ‘Conclusion’, The Renaissance, 1888
A.C.Benson, from ‘Early Writings’, Walter Pater, 1906
John Addington Symonds, from The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella’, 1878
Edward Dowden, from Shakspere: His Mind and Art, 1909
Oscar Wilde, from ‘The Portrait of Mr. W.H.’, 1895
J.A.Nicklin, ‘Marlowe’s “Gaveston”, 1895
Whitmania
John Addington Symonds to Walt Whitman, 3 August 1890
John Addington Symonds to Edward Carpenter, 13 February 1893
John Addington Symonds, from Walt Whitman: A Study, 1893
The Eagle Street College
Edward Carpenter, from Some Friends of Walt Whitman: A Study in Sex Psychology, c. 1898
5. Love
Men
Alan Stanley, ‘To G—’, 1894
Frederick Faber, ‘XL’, 1856
Frederick Faber, ‘Admonition’, 1856
Frederick Faber, ‘To a Friend’, 1856
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, from In Memoriam, 1850
Edmund Gosse, ‘Prelude’, 1873
Edward Cracroft Lefroy, ‘A Disciple Secretly I’, 1897
Edward Cracroft Lefroy, ‘A Football-Player’, 1885
A.C.Benson, ‘The Gift’, 1908
Roden Noel, ‘To—’, 1896
Edmund John, ‘Dream’, 1913
A.C.Swinburne, ‘Song’, 1878
A.C.Swinburne, ‘Fragoletta’, 1866
Oscar Wilde, ‘Quia Multum Amavi’, 1881
Edward Carpenter, ‘Little heart within thy cage’, 1905
Edward Carpenter, ‘When I am near you’, 1905
John Gambril Nicholson, from ‘A Chaplet of Southernwood’, 1896
John Gambril Nicholson, ‘Our Secret’, 1896
Moray Stuart-Young, ‘Alec’, 1909
John Addington Symonds, ‘Love in Dreams’, 1880
John Addington Symonds, ‘A Lieder Kreis IV’, 1884
John Addington Symonds, ‘From Friend to Friend’, n.d.
John Addington Symonds, ‘The Valley of Vain Desires’, 1880
Marc-André Raffalovich, ‘Love, Vice, Crime, and Sin’, 1895
Marc-André Raffalovich, ‘Hyde Park—November’, 1895
Marc-André Raffalovich, ‘To One of My Readers’, 1884
Marc-André Raffalovich, ‘The World Well Lost IV’, 1886
Digby Mackworth Dolben and John Addington Symonds, ’Tema con Variazioni’, n.d.
Walter Headlam, ‘Life’s Lesson’, 1910
Women
Michael Field, from The Tragedy of Pardon, 1911
E.F.Benson, from Mother, 1925
Charlotte Brontë to Ellen Nussey, 20 February 1837
A note on Michael Field
Arran Leigh, ‘To E.C.’, 1875
Michael Field, from ‘Works and Days’, 1913
Michael Field, from Long Ago, 1889
Michael Field, ‘A Palimpsest’, 1908
Michael Field, ‘A Girl’, 1893
Michael Field, ‘Prologue’, 1893
Michael Field, ‘Lo, my Loved is Dying’, 1913
Michael Field, ‘Lovers’, 1913
Michael Field, ‘Your Rose is Dead’, n.d.
Adah Isaacs Menken, ‘A Memory’, 1868
Adah Isaacs Menken, ‘Infelix’, 1868
Havelock Ellis, from My Life, 1916
Amy Levy, ‘Sinfonia Eroica (to Sylvia)’, 1884
Amy Levy, ‘To Sylvia’, 1884
Amy Levy, ‘In the Mile End Road’, 1889
Amy Levy, ‘At a Dinner party’, 1889
6. Sex
Sodomy and other acts
Richard Burton and Leonard Smithers, from Priapeia, 1890
From Teleny, various authors, 1893
Theodore Wratislaw, ‘L’Éternal Féminin’, 1893
Simeon Solomon, A Vision of Love Revealed in Sleep, 1871
Algernon Charles Swinburne to D.G.Rossetti, 22 December 1869
’Etonensis’, from ‘Arthur’s Flogging’, 1888
Aleister Crowley, from White Stains, 1898
Aleister Crowley, from The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, 1929
Boy-love
Bertram Lawrence, ‘A Summer Hour’, 1894
Percy Osborn, ‘Heartsease and Orchid’, 1893
E.F.Benson, from Mother, 1925
Algernon Charles Swinburne, ‘Erotion’, 1865
John Gambril Nicholson, ‘A Fresh Chance’, 1892
’Saloninus’, ‘By the Aegean’, 1893
Alan Stanley, ‘The Dawn Nocturne (August Blue)’, 1894
John Gambril Nicholson, ‘A Bather (for a painting by Edward Thomas)’, 1892
Frederick Rolfe, ‘Ballade of Boys Bathing’, 1890
Charles Kains-Jackson, ‘Sonnet on a Picture by Tuke’, 1889
Tourism
John Addington Symonds, ‘Dearer to me’, 1893
John Gambril Nicholson, ‘In Working Dress’, 1892
John Gambril Nicholson, ‘Your City Cousins’, 1892
Horatio Brown, ‘Bored: at a London Music’, 1900
John Addington Symonds, ‘Angelo Fusato’, 1889
John Addington Symonds, from ‘In the Key of Blue’, 1893
Frederick Rolfe to C., 28 November 1909
Theodore Wratislaw, ‘To a Sicilian Boy’, 1893
Kenneth Searight, from ‘The Furnace’, between 1897 and 1917
Aleister Crowley, ‘Go into the highways and hedges’, 1898
Notes
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