Charlotte Endymion Porter
(1857 - 1942)

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A Desired Past : A Short History of Same-Sex Love in America by Leila J. Rupp

Although this new history of same-sex desire does not offer the long, satisfying narratives of Lillian Faderman's Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers or the sweep of David Greenberg's The Construction of Homosexuality, it does provide a solid introduction to the subject. Tantalizing fragments from the 17th and 18th centuries are joined with later evidence to flesh out Rupp's vision, which draws on Native American and African practices as well as the culture brought to (and imposed on) America by the Europeans. While surveying the more familiar history of gay culture in the cities, she also describes the growth of small, hidden lesbian and gay communities in places as unlikely as Salt Lake City, far removed from the urban centers of vice. Rupp also surveys changes in attitude toward same-sex love within academia in the last 50 years, as well as in American culture at large, and provides a useful bibliography. --Regina Marler (Amazon.com)

Helen Archibald Clarke and Charlotte Endymion Porter

© 1999 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

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Helen Charlotte Porter, who later dropped her first name and adopted the middle name Endymion, was born in Towanda, Pennsylvania, on January 6, 1857. She graduated from Wells College in 1875, studied for a time at the Sorbonne, and in 1883 became editor of Shakespeariana, a journal published in Philadelphia by the Shakespeare Society of New York...

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