Claude Hartland : the story of a life : for the consideration of the medical fraternity / with a foreword by C.A. Tripp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hartland, Claude, 1871- author.

Contributor:

Penn Sexuality Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Grey Fox documents ; 1.

Grey Fox documents ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hartland, Claude, 1871-.

Hartland, Claude.

Gay men--Missouri--Biography.

Gay men.

Missouri.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xvi, 99 pages ; 22 cm.

Distribution:

Eugene OR : Subterranean Company

Other Title:

Story of a life

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Grey Fox Press, [1985]

Summary:

"This very rare document, the earliest autobiography of an avowed American homosexual, was published in St. Louis in 1901. Claude Hartland grew up in farming communities in southern Missouri, went to country schools and became a teacher, but his sexual drive, pronounced from adolescence, increasingly troubles his conscience. Eventually he moves to St. Louis where he finds work more congenial to his nature and a measure of sexual satisfaction"--Page [4] of cover.

Contents:

Foreword / by C. A. Tripp

Preface

Introduction

I. Ancestry, birth, and early childhood

II. Dolls, day-dreams and funerals

III. The midnight curse

IV. The death of Tolbert

V. My conversion

VI. High-school life

VII. My first great love

VIII. In the tomb

IX. "My boy"

X. Fleeing from self

XI. Four months of paradise

XII. The last dream fades

XIII. Freaks, fetiches, and fancies.

Other Format:

Online version: Hartland, Claude, 1871- Claude Hartland.

ISBN:

0912516925

9780912516929

OCLC:

12134811