Emma Donoghue

Standard Name: Donoghue, Emma

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Eva Gore-Booth
In her dual biography of Gore-Booth and Roper, published in 1988, Gifford Lewis situates the women in the romantic friendship tradition, arguing that their relationship was not sexual but based rather on personal affinities and...
Fictionalization Emily Faithfull
Emma Donoghue explores the relationship between EF and the frivolous Helen Codrington , with the scandal that arose from it and Faithfull's change of heart and of sides during the Codrington divorce trial, in The...
Literary responses Charlotte Charke
Emma Donoghue remarks somewhat cryptically that CCcould have been a living fantasy of lesbian possibilities for women readers.
Donoghue, Emma. Passions Between Women: British lesbian culture 1668-1801. Scarlet Press, 1993.
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Philip E. Baruth offers a useful summary of the way that Charke was mostly overlooked...
Literary responses Sarah Waters
SW had not expected her book to travel beyond the lesbian community, but she was in for a surprise.
Sarah, and Lee. “Great LezBritain: Sarah Waters talks inspiration, adaptations at World Book Night”. AfterEllen.com, 28 Mar. 2011, pp. 1-2.
The Independent on Sunday enthused: Could this be a new genre? The bawdy lesbian picaresque novel...
Other Life Event Emily Faithfull
The court ruled in favour of Sir Henry Codrington. The entry on him in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography does not mention the divorce case, though it mentions that he married again within five...
Textual Features Eva Gore-Booth
Critic Emma Donoghue argues that a number of these early poems develop one of the central images of EGB 's career: that of one woman coming to rescue another from an urban prison, and leading...
Textual Production Anne Damer
Some of the attacks she sustained, both visual and literary, amount to the creation of fictionalised versions of her. The Damerian Apollo, a print published by William Holland in 1789, showed her vigorously knocking...
Textual Production Sarah Waters
She carried out as much research as available sources permitted into lesbian lives in England of the 1940s, and spent four years working on this novel (as compared with one year for her first). She...

Timeline

20 November-7 December 1726: In Godalming, Surrey, Mary Toft engrossed...

Building item

20 November-7 December 1726

In Godalming, Surrey, Mary Toft engrossed the attention of eminent medical men and the general public by her claim to be giving birth to rabbits.
Monthly Catalogue, 1723-1730. Gregg Press.
The height of the furore is dated from pamphlet...

Texts

Donoghue, Emma. “’How could I fear and hold thee by the hand?’: The Poetry of Eva Gore-Booth”. Sex, Nation, and Dissent in Irish Writing, edited by Éibhear Walshe and Éibhear Walshe, St Martin’s Press, 1997, pp. 16-42.
Donoghue, Emma. “Author’s Note”. The Sealed Letter, Picador, 2011, pp. 465-74.
Donoghue, Emma. Passions Between Women: British lesbian culture 1668-1801. Scarlet Press, 1993.