A review by hashbrownhedgehog
The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories by Virginia Woolf, Nicole Brossard, Jayne Anne Phillips, Sara Maitland, Joan Nestle, Radclyffe Hall, Merril Mushroom, Djuna Barnes, Alison Bechdel, Beth Nugent, Jewelle Gomez, Colette, Renée Vivien, Jane Rule, Anna Livia, Margaret Atwood, Isak Dinesen, Rebecca Brown, Dorothy Allison, Frances Gapper, Dorothy Strachey, Gertrude Stein, Monique Wittig, Emma Donoghue, Hilda Doolittle, Margaret Reynolds, Sarah Orne Jewett, Jeanette Winterson, Pat Califia, Anaïs Nin, Kathy Acker, Katherine Mansfield, Ann Bannon

4.0

Stories I enjoyed (15 out of 32):
*Martha’s Lady by Sarah Orne Jewett
**Miss Furr and Miss Skeene by Gertrude Stein
*Nuits Blanches by Colette
*I Am a Woman by Ann Bannon
**These Our Mothers by Nicole Brossard
*Sweethearts by Jayne Anne Phillips
*Esther’s Story by Joan Nestle
**How to Engage in Courting Rituals 1950s Butch Style in the Bar by Merril Mushroon
***Bread by Rebecca Brown
*His Not Hers by Jane Rule
**A Lesbian Appetite by Dorothy Allison
**The Vampire by Pat Califa
**The Secret of Sorrerby Rise by Frances Gapper
*Serial Monogamy by Alison Bechdel
*The Poetics of Sex by Jeanette Winterson