Two friends and other nineteenth-century lesbian stories by American women writers

A collection of eleven short stories dealing with "non-Platonic love between women" dating back from the post-Civil War early women's rights period, which includes a preface for each work. Includes writers such as Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, Mary E. Wilkins and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Writing about a wide range of subjects, they share a theme of women loving women and are examples of the beginning of lesbian literature in America.