[net.sf-lovers] "lesbian Gothic romance"

@RUTGERS.ARPA:FIRTH@TL-20B.ARPA (04/02/85)

From: FIRTH@TL-20B.ARPA

I liked Mr Seeley's reviews a lot, but Joanna Russ certainly didn't
invent, even fictionally, the "world's first lesbian Gothic romance".

Credit for that achievement goes to J Sheridan le Fanu, for "Carmilla",
first published in 1871.  Plus c,a change...

Robert Firth

PS: made into a pretty bad movie by Hammer, as "The Vampire Lovers"

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