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Images from the collections

Images about Lesbian couples

5 images from works
  • Lady Strachan and Lady Warwick making love in a park, while their husbands look on with disapproval. Coloured etching, ca. 1820.
  • Ça change quoi pour toi? : Pouvoir parler sans crainte de ma vie de couple et de ma femme à mes collègues : ça change tout pour moi. Ça change quoi pour toi? / Crips Île-de-France.
  • Two women engaged in sexual intercourse in a neoclassical canopied bed. Etching, ca. 1780.
  • Ça change quoi pour toi? : Pouvoir parler sans crainte de ma vie de couple et de ma femme à mes collègues : ça change tout pour moi. Ça change quoi pour toi? / Crips Île-de-France.
  • Sarah Ponsonby (left)and Lady Eleanor Butler, recluses known as the Ladies of Llangollen, seated in their library. Lithograph by R.J. Lane, ca. 1832, after Mary Parker (later Lady Leighton), 1828.

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    Sarah Ponsonby (left)and Lady Eleanor Butler, recluses known as the Ladies of Llangollen, seated in their library. Lithograph by R.J. Lane, ca. 1832, after Mary Parker (later Lady Leighton), 1828.

    Leighton, Mary, Lady, active approximately 1828. | Date: [1832?] | Reference: 2443i
    • Books

    Sapphic slashers : sex, violence, and American modernity / Lisa Duggan.

    Duggan, Lisa, 1954- | Date: [2000], ©2000
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Ça change quoi pour toi? : Pouvoir parler sans crainte de ma vie de couple et de ma femme à mes collègues : ça change tout pour moi. Ça change quoi pour toi? / Crips Île-de-France.

    | Date: [2013]
    • Pictures

    The Ladies of Llangollen (in Library).

    | Date: [between 1850 and 1890?] | Reference: 3305250i
    Part of: The James Gardiner Collection.
    • Ephemera

    Have you been / are you in an abusive lesbian relationship? / Fighting Spirit.

    | Date: [1993?]

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