Caroline Gonda
Biographic Data
| ID | 6566810 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caroline Gonda |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caroline |
| FAMILY NAME | Gonda |
| SIGNATURE | GONDA C |
| AFFILIATIONS | St. Catharine College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Reflections on Fashionable Friends
The love between Mary Berry and Anne Damer, the woman Berry called “my dear Soul,” lasted for nearly thirty years and was central to both their lives. That relationship and Berry’s play Fashionable Friends (originally staged 1801, published 1802), written for herself and Damer to perform, provided the inspiration for the workshop sponsored by the Lewis Walpole Library in Farmington, Connecticut, “Female Friendship, Collaboration and Creativity” (…
Love and loss in wartime
This article discusses an unpublished book by the popular and prolific novelist Pamela Frankau (1908-67), which was rejected by her publishers in 1946 as "almost too personal for publication," and which for many years was believed lost. The work is addressed to Frankau's dead lover, Marjorie Vernon Whitefoord (1907-44), a fellow officer in the women's Auxiliary Territorial Service, and takes the form of a letter to Vernon. The article examines wh…
Maria Edgeworth’s Angelina, or L’amie Inconnue
Despite its many similarities to her better-known novel Belinda, Maria Edgeworth's Angelina is not usually read as a work about lesbianism--even though it begins with the heroine eloping to live with another woman. This article explores same-sex relationships in Angelina and suggests reasons for the work's comparative neglect by lesbian criticism. It examines the process by which the heroine's "unknown friend," the novelist Araminta, moves from b…
Being Faithful
This article examines the ethical force and function of same-sex relationships in a ten-volume sequence of English children's books, published between 1948 and 1982, by Antonia Forest (pseudonym for Patricia Rubinstein, 1915-2003). From the late 1940s onwards, Forest's fiction articulates what Adrienne Rich theorizes in her classic work of lesbian ethics, "Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying" (1975): the idea of same-sex bonds as the locus and s…
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Being Faithful
This article examines the ethical force and function of same-sex relationships in a ten-volume sequence of English children's books, published between 1948 and 1982, by Antonia Forest (pseudonym for Patricia Rubinstein, 1915-2003). From the late 1940s onwards, Forest's fiction articulates what Adrienne Rich theorizes in her classic work of lesbian ethics, "Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying" (1975): the idea of same-sex bonds as the locus and s…
Maria Edgeworth’s Angelina, or L’amie Inconnue
Despite its many similarities to her better-known novel Belinda, Maria Edgeworth's Angelina is not usually read as a work about lesbianism--even though it begins with the heroine eloping to live with another woman. This article explores same-sex relationships in Angelina and suggests reasons for the work's comparative neglect by lesbian criticism. It examines the process by which the heroine's "unknown friend," the novelist Araminta, moves from b…
Love and loss in wartime
This article discusses an unpublished book by the popular and prolific novelist Pamela Frankau (1908-67), which was rejected by her publishers in 1946 as "almost too personal for publication," and which for many years was believed lost. The work is addressed to Frankau's dead lover, Marjorie Vernon Whitefoord (1907-44), a fellow officer in the women's Auxiliary Territorial Service, and takes the form of a letter to Vernon. The article examines wh…
Reflections on Fashionable Friends
The love between Mary Berry and Anne Damer, the woman Berry called “my dear Soul,” lasted for nearly thirty years and was central to both their lives. That relationship and Berry’s play Fashionable Friends (originally staged 1801, published 1802), written for herself and Damer to perform, provided the inspiration for the workshop sponsored by the Lewis Walpole Library in Farmington, Connecticut, “Female Friendship, Collaboration and Creativity” (…
Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Friendship (2 works) · Honor (2 works) · Lesbian (2 works)