A 1916 article by Ruth Fuller Field, author of The Stone Wall: An Autobiography (1930), the first memoir by a lesbian woman in the Americas — “Gee! Mrs. Ruth, you orter get that story wrote in a book! Yer got Alger and Optic beat to a frazzle!” This flattering remark greeted me as I went to say “Good Night” to a room full of boys who were discussing the chapter of a “made up” serial story…

A 1905 article by Ruth Fuller Field, author of The Stone Wall: An Autobiography (1930), the first memoir by a lesbian woman in the Americas — How many farmers’ wives are sorely tried because they have to wait and wait for the men to do numberless little jobs of repairing about the house! “Some rainy day I will fix it!” they say, and yet we all know how many things are laid aside in the shop…

Estados, municípios e até empresas ainda têm muitas oportunidades para acelerar a vacinação — Quando se fala de promover a vacinação contra a Covid-19, uma resposta comum é que “o problema não é a demanda, o problema é que falta vacina”. Pode ser. Mas em algum momento vai ser. …

While translating The Stone Wall: An Autobiography (Kindle, paperback) into Brazilian Portuguese (now available on Amazon BR), I’ve been collecting as much as I possibly can about its author. …

A Homosexualist’s Self-Description And Self-Applied Title. Pudic Nerve Section Fails Therapeutically. — “How often is there delivered from the womb of some noble and grand woman — some little soul, scarred in such manner that stigmatizes its after life and brings a stain so deeply colored as to stamp it in the eyes of the world a ‘social outcast and criminal.’ How…

Published over 100 years ago, Autobiography of an Androgyne is a groundbreaking memoir of what today we would call a transgender woman. It was not very well-received by the medical community. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN ANDROGYNE. By Earl Lind (“Ralph Werther” — “Jennie June”). Edited, with Introduction by Alfred W. Herzog…

or, the bloody tragedy of the prize schooner Waring, enacted as the rebels were attempting to run her into Charleston, S. C., July 7, 1861; being the life and confessions of the steward, william tillman, the brave and daring negro, who, with a hatchet, murdered the rebel prize master, lieutenant, and mate, whom he overheard secretly plotting to sell him into slavery, recaptured the vessel and brought her into a free port.

Three chapters of Eva, the Adventuress: A Romance of a Blighted Life. — 2021 update: Every novel Nellie Bly wrote has now been published in book form, thanks to the work of novelist and editor David Blixt, as The Lost Novels of Nellie Bly. Eva the Adventuress is volume 2 of 11, for instance, and Little Luckie is volume 6. The serials Nellie…

Tradução de 1848 de Stanzas to Jessy, de Lord Byron — Há uma vida mística enlaçada Tão carinhosamente com a minha, Que do Destino a rigorosa espada Nenhuma ou ambas deverá cortar. Uma beldade existe, meus amores, Que contemplo com mágica delícia: Calmar sabe de dia as minhas dores, De noite sonhos doces inspirar. Há uma voz tão pura e melodiosa…