Critic Barbara Smith
, who read the book in galley proof, foresaw that it would rock the publishing world. Incest? Lesbianism? Letters to God? In black English? It was from another planet. Without question, it...
Timeline
1973: Rita Mae Brown published the lesbian novel...
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1973
Rita Mae Brown
published the lesbian novel Rubyfruit Jungle with feminist small press Daughters, Inc
.
Brownmiller, Susan. In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution. Dial, 1999.
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By 1975: The popularity of autobiographies and novels...
Writing climate item
By 1975
The popularity of autobiographies and novels like Maxine Hong Kingston
's Woman Warrior and Rita Mae Brown
's Rubyfruit Jungle had opened a large and growing reading market for coming-of-age works by women writers from...