Alternative Histories of the Self: A Cultural History of Sexuality and Secrets, 1762–1917
Author
Anna Clark
Content
xi + 206 pp., ill., bibl., index
Publication date
2017
Publisher
New York: Bloomsbury Academic/Bloomsbury
Description
Case studies of Chevalièr/e d'Eon, a woman who passed as a male diplomat; Anne Lister, who wrote diary entries about her attraction to women; Richard Johnson, an official with the East India Company; James Hinton, a Victorian doctor who supported polygamy; and Edith Ellis, a socialist lesbian.
Clark, Anna. Alternative Histories of the Self: A Cultural History of Sexuality and Secrets, 1762–1917. New York: Bloomsbury Academic/Bloomsbury, 2017. Sylvia. Accessed April 25, 2024. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL383.
