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Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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May 1811
Two teachers in
Elgin in Scotland
,
Miss Woods
and
Miss Pirie
, sued for libel the grandmother of a pupil who had accused them of lesbian behaviour.
20 November 1934
Lillian Hellman
's
The Children's Hour
, a play in which schoolgirls accuse teachers of having a lesbian relationship, opened on
Broadway, New York
.