Franny Moyle: Constance

The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs Oscar Wilde. UK 2012, 374 pp. with numerous photographs, brochure, € 24.95
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John Murray
In the spring of 1895 Constance Wilde - popular children's author, fashion icon and leading campaigner for women's rights - found her life changed beyond all recognition. Up until the conviction of her husband, Oscar, for homosexual crimes, she as part of a gilded couple had held a privileged position in society. A founding member of the magical society the ... Weiterlesen

Joseph Lelyveld: Great Soul

Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India. USA 2012, 426 pp. with b/w photographs, brochure, € 24.95
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Vintage
When this biography on the »Father of the Indian Nation«, Mahatma Gandhi, was released a big storm of protest in the Indian media broke loose. What was it all about? The biographer claimed that Gandhi has never been very much interested in women because the real love of his life was a German-Jewish architect and bodybuilder, Hermann Kallenbach, for whom ... Weiterlesen

Gyles Brandreth: Oscar Wilde and the Vatican Murders

Uk 2012, 325 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Hodder and Stoughton - Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries 5
Arthur Conan Doyle's rest cure at the spa at Bad Homburg does not go as planned. When he and his friend Oscar Wilde make a series of macabre discoveries amongst his fan mail - including an entire severed hand - the game is once more afoot. The trail leads to Rome, to the very heart of the Vatican. In a ... Weiterlesen

Edmund de Waal: The Hare With Amber Eyes

USA 2011, 354 pp, pb, € 15.95
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Vintage
264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in his great uncle Iggie's Tokyo apartment. When he later inherited the »netsuke«, they unlocked a story far larger and more dramatic than he could ever have imagined. From a burgeoning empire in Odessa to fin de ... Weiterlesen

Bruce Duffy: Disaster Was My God

The Scandalous Outlaw Life of Arthur Rimbaud. UK 2011, 361 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Clerkenwell
In the space of one year, 1871, with a handful of startling poems, Arthur Rimbaud transformed himself from a teenage bumpkin into the literary sensation of Paris. He was taken in, then taken up, by the older, married poet Paul Verlaine in a passionate affair. When Rimbaud sought to end it, Verlaine, in a jealous rage, shot him. Shortly thereafter, ... Weiterlesen

Lisa See: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

UK 2011, 341 pp., Pb, € 12.95
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Lily is the daughter of a humble farmer, and to her family she is just another expensive mouth to feed. Then the local matchmaker delivers startling news: if Lily's feet are bound properly, they will be flawless. In 19th-century China, where a woman's eligibility is judged by the shape and size of her feet, this is extraordinary good luck. Lily ... Weiterlesen

Deborah Lutz: Pleasure Bound

Victorian Sex Rebels and the New Eroticism. USA 2011, 331 pp., illustrated, hardbound, € 24.95
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At the height of the Victorian era, a daring group of artists and thinkers defied the reigning obsession with propriety, testing the boundaries of sexual decorum in their lives and in their work. D.G. Rossetti exhumed his dead wife to pry his only copy of a manuscript of his poems from her coffin. Legendary explorer Richard Burton wrote how-to manuals ... Weiterlesen

Michael Bronski: A Queer History of the United States

USA 2011, 287 pp., hardbound, € 29.95
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In the 1620s, Thomas Morton broke from Plymouth Colony and founded Merrymount which celebrated same-sex desire, atheism and interracial marriage. Transgender evangelist Jemima Wilkinson, in the early 1800s, refused to use pronouns, fought for gender equality, and led her own congregation in upstate New York. In the mid-19th century, actress Charlotte Cushman led an openly lesbian life, including a well-publized ... Weiterlesen

Nicholas Frankel (ed.): Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

An Annotated, Uncensored Edition. USA 2011, 295 pp. illustrated, hardbound, € 69.95
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Harvard University Press
»The Picture of Dorian Gray« altered the way Victorians understood the world they inhabited. It heralded the end of a repressive Victorianism, and after its publication, literature had a different look. Yet the »Dorian Gray« that Victorians never knew was even more daring than the novel the British press condemned as »vulgar«, »unclean«, »poisonous«, »discreditable«, and »a sham«. Now, more ... Weiterlesen

Sarah Waters: Tipping the Velvet

UK 1998, 422 pp., p., € 16.95
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Little Brown
This delicious, steamy debut novel chronicles the adventures of Nan King, who begins life as an oyster girl in the provincial seaside town of Whitstable and whose fortunes are forever changed when she falls in love with a cross-dressing music-hall singer named Miss Kitty Butler. When Kitty is called up to London for an engagement on »Grease Paint Avenue«, Nan ... Weiterlesen

James Kent (R): Die geheimen Tagebücher der Anne Lister

UK 2010, OF, dt.SF, dt.UT, 90 min., € 14.99
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BBC
Dieser Film - basierend auf dem Buch von Jane English - zeigt eine überraschende Seite der Welt, die Jane Austen und die Bronte-Schwestern in ihren Büchern beschrieben haben. Es zeigt das leidenschaftliche, dramatische Leben von Anne Lister, die als die erste moderne Lesbe Großbritanniens anzusehen ist. In ihren geheimen Tagebüchern macht sie aus ihrer Liebe für Frauen keinen Hehl. In ... Weiterlesen

Jonathan Kemp: London Triptych

UK 2010, 239 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Myriad Editions
Rent boys, aristocrats, artists and criminals populate this début as the author interweaves the lives and loves of three very different men in the Underground gay scene across the decades. Jack Rose begins his apprenticeship as a rent boy with Alfred Taylor in the 1890s, and finds that a life of pleasure and excess leads him to new friendships - ... Weiterlesen

Helena Whitbread (ed.): The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister

UK 2010, 422pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Anne Lister defied the role of 19th-century womanhood: she was bold, fiercely independent, a landowner, industrialist, traveller - and lesbian. She kept intimate diaries of her life and loves, much of which were written in code. These diaries are a piece of lost lesbian history - they have been edited by Helena Whitbread, who spent years decoding and transcribing them. ... Weiterlesen

Gyles Brandreth: Oscar Wilde and the Nest of Vipers

UK 2010, 421 pp., brochure, € 15.90
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Hodder and Stoughton - Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries 4
1890: all London's haul monde is at a glamorous reception hosted by the Duke and the Duchess of Albemarle, including the Prince of Wales. The heir apparent and the prince of aesthetes are friends, yet at the party Oscar appears more interested in a young actor, Rex LaSalle, who disarmingly claims to be a vampire. As the guests are about ... Weiterlesen

M.J. Pearson: Helpless

Only One Man Can Save Him. USA 2010, 210 pp., brochure, € 13.39
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In London during the gross indecency trial of Oscar Wilde, Douglas Shrove finds himself still haunted by memories of his dead lover while skirting violence, blackmail and the affections of two men. - »There are two who seek you out.« That is what the gypsy told Shrove a few months after the death of his lover. And the gypsy was ... Weiterlesen

Paula Byrne: Mad World

Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead. UK 2010, 368 pp., brochure, € 13.99
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As much as this is a biography of Evelyn Waugh, it is also the biography of the family that inspired his best-known novel, »Brideshead Revisited«. The product of a middle-class upbringing and a middling public school, Waugh's experience at Oxford was an awakening. There, he fell in with a sophisticated crowd that had at its center the glamorous Hugh Lygon, ... Weiterlesen

Gyles Brandreth: Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man's Smile

A Mystery. USA/UK/CAN/AUS 2009, 365 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Hodder and Stoughton - Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries 3
Playwright and raconteur Oscar Wilde embarks on another adventure as he sets sail for America in the 1880s on a roller coaster of a lecture tour. But the adventure doesn't truly begin until Oscar boards an ocean liner headed back across the Atlantic and joins a motley crew led by the French impresario Edmond La Grange. As Oscar becomes entangled ... Weiterlesen

Timothy Snyder: The Red Prince

The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke. USA 2008, 344 pp. with numerous b/w photos, brochure, € 24.95
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Perseus Group
Wilhelm von Habsburg wore the uniform of the Austrian officer, the court regalia of a Habsburg archduke, the simple suit of a Parisian exile, the collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece, and, every so often, a dress. He could handle a saber, a pistol, a rudder, or a golf club. He handled women by necessity and men for ... Weiterlesen