The Photographs of Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden
Omschrijving
Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden produced over eight hundred photographs during her all-too-brief life. Most of these were portraits of her adolescent daughters. In this title, these pictures become windows into Victorian culture, eroticism, mother-daughter relationships, and intimacy. Acknowledgments
xi
Preface ``Only, my secret's mine, and I won't tell''
xv
An Erotic Note
xxv
A Queer Note
xxix
Introduction Adolescent Reverie
1(34)
Reduplicative Desires
35(46)
``In Which the Story Pauses a Little''
81(20)
Sapphic Narcissa
101(34)
Collecting Loss
135(40)
Postscript
175(2)
List of Illustrations
177(6)
Notes
183(20)
Works Cited
203(8)
Index
211
