Colouring the past: death, desire, and homosexuality in Vernon Lee’s “A wedding chest”

Patricia Pulham

doi:10.3167/cs.2007.190102

Colouring the past: death, desire, and homosexuality in Vernon Lee’s “A wedding chest”

Patricia Pulham

Centre for Studies in Literature

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In 1933, the sexologist Havelock Ellis acknowledged in The Psychology of Sex that: We may not know exactly what sex is, but we do know that it is mutable, with the possibility of one sex being changed into the other sex, that its frontiers are often uncertain, and that there are many stages between a complete male and a complete female.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	5-16
Number of pages	12
Journal	Critical Survey
Volume	19
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3167/cs.2007.190102
Publication status	Published - 2007

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Colouring the past: death, desire, and homosexuality in Vernon Lee’s “A wedding chest”

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