Footnotes

1. Emma Donoghue, Passions Between Women, London, Scarlet Press, 1993, page 2.

2. Jan Bremmer, ed., From Sappho to De Sade: Moments in the History of Sexuality, Routledge, 1989, pages 15-35 (n. 2 p. 31).

3. Bremmer, page 27.

4. Martha Vicinus, "They Wonder to Which Sex I Belong": 'the Historical Roots of the Modern Lesbian Identity', Feminist Studies, vol. 18, no. 3, fall 1992, page 477.

5. Donoghue, page 4.

6. Judith C. Brown, Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy, New York, Oxford University Press, 1986, pages 19-20.

7. Ruthann Robson, Lesbian (Out)law: Survival Under the Rule of Law, Ithaca, New York, Firebrand Books, 1992, page 37.

8. Donoghue, page 28.

9. Donoghue, page 29.

10. Brown, page 19.

11. Rudolph Dekker and Lotte C. van de Pol, The Tradition of Female Transvestitism in Early Modern Europe, Macmillan, 1989, page 57.

12. A.D. Harvey, Sex in Georgian England, London, Duckworth, 1994, page 117.

13. Patricia Anderson, When Passion Reigned, New York, BasicBooks, 1995, page 105.

14. Harvey, page 43.

15. Harvey, page 52.

16. Anderson, page 120.

17. Daniel Defoe, Roxana [1724], ed. Jane Jack, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1981, page 28.

18. Defoe, pages 31-32.

19. Defoe, page 46.

20. Defoe, pages 186-187.

21. Donoghue, page 184.

22. Samuel Richardson [1740], Pamela, London, Penguin Books, 1980, page 230.

23. Donoghue, page 185.

24. Richardson, page 232.

25. Donoghue, page 185.

26. Ruth Bernard Yeazell, Fictions of Modesty: Women and Courtship in the English Novel, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1991, pages 269-270.

27. Donoghue, page 185.

28. Donoghue, page 186.

29. Donoghue, page 191.

30. Donoghue, page 193.

31. Denis Diderot, La Religeuse [1796], trans. as The Nun, Dublin, G. Smith, 1797, page 45.

32. Diderot, page 129.

33. Diderot, page 174.

34. Diderot, page 183.

35. Diderot, page 188.

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