Fanny Fern: “Women Lovers”

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https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844353.book-part-026

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Abstract

Perhaps you do not know it, but there are women who fall in love with each other. Woe be to the unfortunate she, who does the courting! All the cussedness of ingenuity peculiar to the sex is employed by “the other party” in tormenting her. She will flirt with women by the score who are brighter and handsomer than her victim. She will call on them oftener. She will praise their best bonnets and go into ecstasies over their dresses. She will write them pink notes, and wear their “in types,” and when despair has culminated, and sore-hearted Araminta takes to her bed in consequence, then only will this conquering “she” step off her pedestal to pick up her dead and wounded. But then, women must keep their hand in. Practice makes perfect.

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