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100 1 _aKnopf, Emilie
245 1 4 _aDer Liebe Lust und Leid der Frau zur Frau
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-09-07
508 _aJens Sadowski and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net, based on scans made available by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. The digitized holdings of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin are available to all interested parties worldwide free of charge for non-commercial use.
520 _a"Der Liebe Lust und Leid der Frau zur Frau" by Emilie Knopf is an erotic novel written in the late 19th century. The work examines women’s same-sex desire within fashionable society, following the refined narrator Felicita and her captivating beloved Edita as admiration blossoms into passion, jealousy, and self-justification. Framed as a caution against excess while reveling in allure, it blends confession, romance, and social scandal. The opening of the novel juxtaposes a press report about the book’s obscenity case with a preface that invokes Sappho and casts the narrative as a warning about misdirected “women’s love.” The story then introduces Felicita, a wealthy aesthete who meets Edita at a masquerade ball; their intense friendship swiftly becomes a love affair, celebrated in art and private moments. At a seaside resort Felicita is tempted by Comtesse Eugénie, provoking Edita’s hurt and a reconciliation that culminates at Edita’s Rhine castle, where their bond deepens. Travel to Italy leads them into an aristocratic “ladies’ night” of voyeurism and indulgence, where Edita playfully stokes Felicita’s jealousy before restoring harmony. On the return through Tyrol they befriend a singer and an industrialist’s wife, overhearing a transactional liaison that the narrator views with distaste. Back home the pair devote themselves to painting and music, receive pupils, and later welcome the Venetian Marchesa and her companion—where the excerpt ends. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cStargard i. Pomm.: Verlagsbureau für literarische Neuheiten, 1895
653 _aLesbians -- Fiction
653 _aGerman fiction -- 19th century
856 4 _uhttps://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/pdf/PPN1832955885
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76833
999 _c117558
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