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Tipping the velvet / Sarah Waters.
Van Pelt Library PR6073.A828 T56 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Waters, Sarah, 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lesbians--England--Fiction.
- Lesbians.
- England--Social life and customs--19th century--Fiction.
- England.
- Manners and customs.
- Picaresque literature.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Picaresque literature.
- Picaresque fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 472 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Riverhead Books, [1999]
- Summary:
- The story of a "girl-in-trousers" in 1890s England. She is a lesbian fishmonger who gains entry into the libertine world of music halls by an affair with a singer, becoming her partner in a cross-dressing show. But drama follows when the other goes straight.
- Notes:
- Lambda Literary Awards - Lesbian Fiction, Winner, 2000
- ISBN:
- 1573221368
- 9781573221368
- 1573227889
- 9781573227889
- OCLC:
- 40347348
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
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