# Sex variant women in literature

Author: Foster, Jeannette H. (Jeannette Howard), 1895-1981

Genre: Women in literature

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77276

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Sex+variant+women+in+literature+Foster&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

It is natural to begin a study of sex variant women with Sappho, Greek lyric poet of the early sixth century B.C., whose name and that of her native island, Lesbos, have supplied our popular vocabulary with its terms for female homosexuality. Plato, who lived only two centuries later and probably knew her work almost completely, pronounced her the Tenth Muse, and, happily, the high quality of her verse led classical writers to quote it freely. For what with the hazards of time and later prejudice, the twelve thousand lines she is believed to have written are now lost save for these quoted excerpts and some fragments on papyri salvaged during modern excavations in Egypt. The few hundred su...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sex-variant-women-in-literature-77276/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sex-variant-women-in-literature-77276/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sex-variant-women-in-literature-77276/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sex-variant-women-in-literature-77276/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sex-variant-women-in-literature-77276/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sex-variant-women-in-literature-77276/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sex-variant-women-in-literature-77276/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sex-variant-women-in-literature-77276/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sex-variant-women-in-literature-77276/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sex-variant-women-in-literature-77276/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part III, “The Wonderful Adventures of Mr. Lawrence Talbot,” presents](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sex-variant-women-in-literature-77276/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part II, “The Boyhood of Lilly Travers,” recounts the hilarious and](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sex-variant-women-in-literature-77276/chapters/5/index.md)