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Terry Castle

Terry Castle lives in San Francisco and teaches at Stanford. She is the editor of The Literature of Lesbianism, and the author of Boss Ladies, Watch Out!, a book of essays, many from the LRB. She has a blog at terry-castle-blog.blogspot.com

Selected bibliography

  • The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall (editor) (2003)
  • Courage, mon amie (2003)
  • Boss Ladies, Watch Out! Essays on Women, Sex and Writing (2002)
  • Noel Coward and Radclyffe Hall: Kindred Spirits (1996)
  • The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture (1995)
  • The Female Thermometer: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny (1995)
  • Masquerade and Civilization: Carnivalesque in Eighteenth-Century English Culture and Fiction (1986)

Contributor’s website: terry-castle-blog.blogspot.com

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In the LRB archive

Husbands and Wives · 13 December 2007

  • Don’t Kiss Me: The Art of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore edited by Louise Downie  Buy this book
  • Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm  Buy this book

Travels with My Mom · 16 August 2007

Desperately Seeking Susan · 17 March 2005

subscriber-only content Love-of-One’s-Life Department · 21 October 2004

subscriber-only content Seductress Extraordinaire · 24 June 2004

  • ‘That Furious Lesbian’: The Story of Mercedes de Acosta by Robert Schanke
  • Women in Turmoil: Six Plays by Mercedes de Acosta, edited by Robert Schanke

subscriber-only content Courage, mon amie · 4 April 2002

11 September · 4 October 2001

Pipe down back there! · 14 December 2000

  • Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism by Joan Acocella

Yes you, sweetheart · 16 March 2000

  • Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman

Always the Bridesmaid · 30 September 1999

  • Victorian Sappho by Yopie Prins

Terror on the Vineyard · 15 April 1999

  • A Likely Story: One Summer with Lillian Hellman by Rosemary Mahoney

If everybody had a wadley · 5 March 1998

  • The Queen of Whale Cay: The Eccentric Story of ‘Joe’ Carstairs, Fastest Woman on Water by Kate Summerscale

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive My Heroin Christmas · 18 December 2003

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