Lesbian Historic Motif Project: Creating a detailed index

[hrj]

In preparation for setting up a searchable keyword system for the Project, I've been working my way through the entries and pulling out index items. In addition to topics, both general and specific, I'm looking at specific individuals (or fictional characters), works of literature or art, and vocabulary.

Here's a preliminary list up through entry #21:

A Simple Story (Elizabeth Inchbald)
Alfhild
Anne Conway Damer
Anne Lister
Anne Poulter/James Howard
artistic representation
Bieiris de Romans
Brynhildr
Casa della Zitelle
Charlotte Charke
Clarissa
court case
cross-dressing
cross-gender roles/behavior
dildo
economic independence
emotional /romantic bonds between women
essentialism
female co-habitation
female comrades/friends
female head of household
female mentors
female sodomy
Galeran de Bretagne (Frene)
gender disguise f>m
gender disguise m>f
Greta von Mösskirch
hand-holding
Hervör
Hildegard of Bingen
inheritance by women
Jeanne d’Arc
Jehanne & Laurence
Juvenal
Katharina Güldin
Katherina Hetzeldorfer
kissing
Krakow university student
L’Escoufle (Aelis)
Ladgerda
Ladies of Llangollen (Eleanor Butler & Sarah Ponsonby)
Lettres de Milady Juliette Catesby a Milady Henriette Campley, son amie (Jeanne Riccoboni)
Mademoiselle de Richelieu
Marie de France, lais
marriage between women
marriage resistance
martial activity
Mary Astell
Millennium Hall (Sarah Scott)
Paul’s Epistle
penitentials
prostitutes
Queen Anne
quest heroine, literary
religious singlehood
Richardis of Stade
Roman de la Rose (Guillaume de Lorris / Jean de Meun)
Roman de la Rose ou de Guillaume de Dole (Lienor)
Saint Radegund
Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough
Sarah Fielding
sex between women
sexual/romantic desire
Silence
singlewomen, historic
singlewomen, literary
Skadhi
The Cry (Sarah Fielding & Jane Collier)
The Female Quixote (Charlotte Lennox)
Thornbjörg
vocabulary: fricatrix
vocabulary: heteiristriai
vocabulary: lesbian
vocabulary: Sapphic/sapphist
vocabulary: tribade
widows
women’s communities, non-religious
women’s communities, religious

Comments

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

This is a fascinating index. I hope you publish a paper (or more) on this when you're ready.

[hrj.livejournal.com]

Papers are so fixed-in-timey. I can keep blogging forever!

[abd07.livejournal.com]

Heiteiristrial ????

[hrj.livejournal.com]

Are you making fun of my typo or are you not familiar with the word?

[hrj.livejournal.com]

From Plato's dialogue on how lovers seek their "other half", once conjoined. Hetairistriai would be those who originated from a female couple.