Terry Castle

Terry Castle’s The Professor, a collection of personal essays written between 2002 and 2009, will appear from HarperCollins in January. Several of the essays first appeared in the LRB.

In the LRB Archive:

• Diary: Moving House · 27 August 2009

• Tickle and Flutter: Maude Hutchins’s Revenge · 3 July 2008

• Husbands and Wives: Claude & Marcel, Gertrude & Alice · 13 December 2007

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

• Travels with My Mom: in Santa Fe · 16 August 2007

• Desperately Seeking Susan: remembering Susan Sontag · 17 March 2005

• Love-of-One’s-Life Department: The lesbian scarcity economy · 21 October 2004

  • Wild Girls: Paris, Sappho and Art: The Lives and Loves of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks by Diana Souhami

• Seductress Extraordinaire: The vampiric Mercedes de Acosta · 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

• My Heroin Christmas: Art Pepper and Me · 18 December 2003

• Courage, mon amie: Disquiet on the Western Front · 4 April 2002

• Pipe down back there!: The Willa Cather Wars · 14 December 2000

  • Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism by Joan Acocella

• Yes You, Sweetheart: A Garland for Colette · 16 March 2000

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

• Always the Bridesmaid: Sappho · 30 September 1999

  • Victorian Sappho by Yopie Prins

• Terror on the Vineyard: Boss Ladies, Watch Out! · 15 April 1999

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

• If everybody had a Wadley on The Queen of Whale Cay: The Eccentric Story of ‘Joe’ Carstairs, Fastest Woman on Water by Kate Summerscale · 5 March 1998

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

• Flournoy’s Complaint · 23 May 1996

  • From India to the Planet Mars: A Case of Multiple Personality with Imaginary Languages by Théodore Flournoy, edited by Sonu Shamdasani

• Sister-Sister · 3 August 1995

  • Jane Austen’s Letters edited by Deirde Le Faye

• Sublimely Bad · 23 February 1995

  • Secresy; or, The Ruin on the Rock by Eliza Fenwick, edited by Isobel Grundy

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