num_pages: 310
description: Lesbian erotica of the 1920s through the 1940s had a bold new cast to it. Unlike the tender and affectionate eroticism of the Victorian era with its naughty schoolgirls, convent antics and ladies-in-waiting, these 20th Century tales brought verisimilitude and fantasy together. While Radclyffe Hall was being prosecuted for obscenity for her depiction of "sapphics" and "inverts" in the classic lesbian novel *The Well of Loneliness,* her friend Natalie Barney was riding naked through the streets of Paris on horseback with her lover, the poet Renee Vivienne and Anais Nin were penning lurid and lustful tales of very bad girls while yearning for Henry Miller's sensual wife, June.
language: English
title: The Golden Age of Lesbian Erotica: 1920-1940
titlecomplete: The Golden Age of Lesbian Erotica: 1920-1940
genres: LGBT
ratings_count: 9
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Erotica
publisher: Magic Carpet Books