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Letters from Laura and Eveline

1883

Anonymous

London: Privately Printed

British

Novel

93pp

Intersex, Erotica

Open Access

Summary

Laura and Eveline, a pair of cross-dressing sex workers mentioned in The Sins of the Cities of the Plain (1881), hold an orgy in celebration to their wedding(s).

More Info

William Lazenby, the original publisher for The Sins of the Cities of the Plain (1881) was cited as the author of the text in Classics in Extremis: The Edges of Classical Reception (2018) edited by Edmund Richardson. Bloomsbury Publishing.


Also see:

  • Valancourt Books's outline of Justin O'Hearn's 2013 edited edition.

  • LGBT Victorians: Sexuality and Gender in the Nineteenth-century Archives (2022) by Simon Joyce. Oxford University Press.

Content & Trigger Warnings

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Editions

London: Charles Hirsch (1883) reprinted in 1889 and 1903.


Richmon, Virginia : Valancourt Books (2013) ed. by Justin O'Hearn. 92p. Contains the text from the only copy known to have survived: the 1903 edition held by the British Library.

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