Nat Reeve: Nettleblack

UK 2022, 420 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Cipher
The year is 1893. Having run away from her family home to escape an arranged marriage, Welsh heiress Henry Nettleblack finds herself ambushed, robbed, and then saved by the mysterious Dallyangle Division - part detective agency, part neighbourhood watch. Desperate to hide from her older sisters, Henry disguises herself and enlists. But the Division soon finds itself under siege from ... Weiterlesen

Sally Wainwright (R): Gentleman Jack Series 2

UK 2022, engl. OF, engl. UT, 3 DVDs, 464 min., € 34.99
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
BBC - Gentleman Jack 2
All eight episodes from the second series of the BBC period drama starring Suranne Jones as landowner Anne Lister. Based on her own diaries, the show follows Lister as she returns to Halifax, West Yorkshire in 1832 to find her ancestral home at Shibden Hall has fallen into a state of disrepair. In an effort to improve its fortunes, Anne ... Weiterlesen

Olga Petri: Places of Tenderness and Heat: The Queer Milieu of Fin-de-Siècle St. Petersburg

UK 2022, 254 pp., hardbound, € 79.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Cornell University Press
»Places of Tenderness and Heat« is a ground-level exploration of queer St. Petersburg at the fin-de-siècle. Olga Petri takes us through busy shopping arcades, bathhouses, and public urinals to show how queer men routinely met and socialized. She reconstructs the milieu that enabled them to navigate a city full of risk and opportunity. Focusing on a non-Western, unexplored, and fragile ... Weiterlesen

Anna North: Outlawed

UK 2022, 263 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
On the day of her wedding-dance, Ada feels lucky. She loves her broad-shouldered, bashful husband and her job as an apprentice midwife. But her luck will not last. It is every woman's duty to have a child, to replace those that were lost in the Great Flu. And after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where ... Weiterlesen

Anita Kurimay: Queer Budapest

USA 2020, 336 pp., brochure, € 49.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
University of Chicago Press
By the dawn of the 20th century, Budapest was a burgeoning cosmopolitan metropolis. Known at the time as the »Pearl of the Danube,« it boasted some of Europe's most innovative architectural and cultural achievements, and its growing middle class was committed to advancing the city's liberal politics and making it an intellectual and commercial crossroads between East and West. In ... Weiterlesen

Jen Manion: Female Husbands

UK 2020, 320 pp., hardback, € 29.90
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Cambridge University Press
Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them. Female husbands - people assigned female who transed gender, lived as men, and married women - were true queer pioneers. Moving deftly from the colonial era to just before the First World War, Jen Manion uncovers the riveting and very personal stories ... Weiterlesen

Hugh Ryan: When Brooklyn Was Queer

USA 2019, 308 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
SMP
»When Brooklyn Was Queer« is an exploration of the LGBT history of Brooklyn, from the early days of Walt Whitman in the 1850s up through the queer women who worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II, and beyond. No other book, movie, or exhibition has ever told this sweeping story. Not only has Brooklyn always lived in ... Weiterlesen

Anne Choma: Gentleman Jack

The Real Anne Lister. UK 2019, 327 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin UK
The real Anne Lister, and the official companion to the hit BBC series created by Sally Wainwright and starring Suranne Jones. In »Gentleman Jack«, historian and series consultant Anne Choma draws from the explosive diaries of Anne Lister to recreate the life and times of one of the most fascinating lesbian figures of all time. Anne's remarkable diaries, partly written ... Weiterlesen

Angela Steidele: Gentleman Jack

A Biography of Anne Lister, Regency Landowner, Seducer and Secret Diarist. UK 2019, 352 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Profile
The extraordinary life story of Anne Lister, as told in the BBC drama »Gentleman Jack«. Anne Lister was a Yorkshire heiress, an intrepid world traveller and a proud lesbian during a time when it was difficult simply to be female. She chose to remain unmarried, dressed all in black and spoke openly of her lack of interest in men. The ... Weiterlesen

Jae: Hidden Truths

D 2014, 476 pp., brochure, € 15.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Ylva Verlag - 3
»Luke« Hamilton has been living as a husband and father for the past seventeen years. No one but her wife, Nora, knows she is not the man she appears to be. They have raised their daughters to become honest and hard-working young women, but even with their loving foundation, Amy and Nattie are hiding their own secrets. Just as Luke ... Weiterlesen

Megan Murly: Bound to Be a Groom

UK 2014, 206 pp.,brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
In the tumultuous summer of 1808, Spain and England are close to war and four young lovers are close to ecstasy. To carve out an independent life with the woman she loves, Anna knows she must leave her quiet Spanish convent to become a courtesan. To gain experience, she sets her sights on Sebastian, whose powerful, aristocratic confidence suits Anna's ... Weiterlesen

Lois Cloarec Hart: Kicker's Journey

D 2013, 472 pp., brochure, € 15.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Ylva Verlag
In 1899, two women from very different backgrounds are about to embark on a journey together - one that will take them from the Old World to the New, from the 19th century into the 20th, and from the comfort and familiarity of England to the rigours of Western Canada, where challenges await at every turn. The journey begins simply ... Weiterlesen

Jae: Beyond the Trail

D 2013, 136 pp., brochure, € 9.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Ylva Verlag - The Oregon Series 2
Six short stories that give us glimpses into the lives of Luke, Nora, and the other characters from »Backwards to Oregon«.
The Blue Hour: When her mother dies, twelve-year-old Lucinda Hamilton decides to start a new life?as a boy.
Grasping at Straws: No one knows that Tess Swenson, madam of a brothel, also owns a livery stable and ... Weiterlesen

Paulette Callen: Charity

D 2013, 337 pp, brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Ylva Verlag - The Charity Series 1
The friendship between Lena Kaiser, a sodbuster's daughter, and Gustie Roemer, an educated Easterner, is unlikely in any other circumstance but post-frontier Charity, South Dakota. Gustie is considered an outsider, and Lena is too proud to share her problems with anyone else. On the nearby Sioux reservation, Gustie also finds love and family with two Dakotah women: Dorcas Many Roads, ... Weiterlesen

Jae: Backwards to Oregon

D 2013, 521 pp, brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Ylva Verlag - The Oregon Series 1
»Luke« Hamilton has always been sure that she'd never marry. She accepted that she would spend her life alone when she chose to live her life disguised as a man. After working in a brothel for three years, Nora Macauley has lost all illusions about love. She no longer hopes for a man who will sweep her off her feet ... Weiterlesen

Neil McKenna: Fanny and Stella

The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England. UK 2013, 396 pp. illustrated, pp, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Faber and Faber
This is the story of the trial that shook Victorian England - a tale of cross-dressing, cross-examination and the invention of camp. Fanny and Stella were no ordinary young women. They were young men who liked to dress as women: Frederick Park and Ernest Boulton, two young clerks, part-time actresses and part-time prostitutes. Stella was the most beautiful female impersonator ... Weiterlesen

Sarah Waters: Fingersmith

UK 2012, 548 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
No one and nothing is as it seems in this Dickensian novel of thrills and reversals. Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a »baby farmer.« Mrs. Sucksby's household also hosts a transient family of petty thieves - fingersmiths - for whom this house in the heart of a mean London slum ... Weiterlesen

Franny Moyle: Constance

The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs Oscar Wilde. UK 2012, 374 pp. with numerous photographs, brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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