Lesbian empire

The British lesbian writers examined by Wachman (English, State U. of New York, Old Westbury)--including Sylvia Townsend Warner, Virginia Woolf, Rose Allatini, Evadne Price, Radclyffe Hall, and Clemence Dane--often used the practice of "crosswriting", or transferring the concerns of lesbians onto narrative characters of gay males, to challenge the repressive Victorian society that they critiqued. This work examines not only their criticisms of gender relations, but also their engagement with larger societal forces such as imperialism and capitalism. c. Book News Inc.