Lesbian: Refers to women who are romantically/sexually attracted to women. "Same gender loving woman" is sometimes used in the African-American community.
From "Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation" chapter (p.84) in Our Bodies, Ourselves, 2011 ed.
Also WLW=woman loving woman.
Gentleman Jack : a biography of Anne Lister, regency landowner, seducer and secret diarist by
"Anne Lister was a wealthy Yorkshire heiress, a world traveller and a lesbian in an era when it was difficult simply to be female. She wrote her diary in code derived from Ancient Greek, including details of her liaisons with women. Liberated by her money, she remained unmarried, opened a colliery and chose to dress in men's clothes. Some locals referred to her as Gentleman Jack and sent her poison pen letters, but this did not dissuade her from living mostly as she pleased. On inheriting Shibden Hall, Anne chose to travel abroad, before returning to Halifax and courting Ann Walker, another wealthy heiress twelve years her junior. They renovated Shibden Hall together and considered themselves married, to the horror of Walker's relatives. On a trip to Georgia, Lister caught a fever and died. Walker was subsequently shut up in the same lunatic asylum as Eliza, one of Lister's earlier conquests. The biography combines excerpts of Lister's own diaries with Angela Steidele's erudite and lively commentary."
Invisible Families: Gay Identities, Relationships, and Motherhood among Black Women by 
Sapphistries : a global history of love between women by 
The literature of lesbianism : a historical anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall by Use the terms below to search Rider University Libraries and the Mercer County Library for titles.
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