Lesbian Literature to 1928

Producer

Gay Peoples Union (Milwaukee, Wis.)

Date

• January 13, 1972

Publisher

WUWM (Radio station : Milwaukee, Wis.)

Summary

• Track 1 (0:55) "Aquarius" from the original Broadway cast recording of Hair
• Track 2 (12:06) Survey of "sexual variant" women's literature from the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries in Europe and the United States; consideration of works such as Diderot's La Religieuse (1760), Mary Wollstonecraft's Mary: A Fiction (1788), Théophile Gautier's Mademoiselle de Maupin (1835), and others (0:54-13:01)
• Track 3 (2:13) Orchestral performance of "Pavane for a Dead Princess" composed by Maurice Pavel
• Track 4 (13:52) Sexual variant women's literature in the early twentieth-century; summary of modern scientific thought on homosexuality and its impact on literature; impact of contemporary events and national attitudes on literature; discussion of writers such as Renée Vivien, Amy Lowell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, and Radcliffe Hall
• Track 5 (0:36) Conclusion