Emma, struggling to establish herself as a physician in turn of the 20th Century Baltimore, meets Margaret, a wealthy patron. Together they fight to be free in a society challenged by fights for women's suffrage, social reform, birth control and the practice of law - all issues in the news over 100 years later. This historical novel mirrors social progress and women's quest for emancipation and love.

Cytherea's Breath

Sarah Aldridge

Literature & Fiction

A&M Books

This is a sensual, sensitive feast about two teenage women, growing up during the Great Depression and fighting their way out of the trials they inherit. It's a love sotry for and about all true lovers.

All True Lovers

LGBTQ+ Books

Civil War nurse and teacher Hannah uses her psychic powers to create a comfortable home for her lifelong companion Elizabeth – a scholar who suffered the indignities heaped on women in academia in the late 19th century. It's another one of Aldridge's classic novels of feminist triumph and love colored outside the lines.

Madame Aurora

United States

Set in London and Baltimore just before World War II, Althea, crippled by childhood polio finds love and companionship with Fern. Mrs. Henshaw, who assists the unfortunate, helps the pair, and learns through them that she must correct a mistake from the past.

Misfortunes Friend

An innocent 18 year old in 1885 Baltimore, Amantha meets and marries a financier twice her age, who takes her live in Paris and care for his child. In the midst of her constricting life of privilege she finds a woman who gives her the love her heart seeks.

Amantha

When the police bring Mary Brown, an old street woman dressed in rags before judge Alsia Caneron, she sits silent and unresponsive to the questions put before her. Alisa, deeply perturbed by this enlists the aid of Camilla, a social worker. Together, they help reveal Mary Brown's past as an accomplished opera singer. Could she be the mysterious opera star Magdalena who disappeared three years before after the death of her lifelong companion?

Magdalena

Aldridge, Sarah

Contemporary

Mrs Henshaw, middle-aged, unfashionable, faded, who nevertheless pours out the vigour and decisive energy of a young woman in determined efforts to help the friendless, the homeless, the hungry. But, she learns that she must correct a mistake made in her past, which has brought anguish to her dearest love and unacknowledged loss to herself.

Misfortune's Friend

Nina, age 17 is the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Amazon that kills both her parents. Annie, a successful businesswoman and daughter of two famous people in the arts world struggles with her own response to what Nina has come to mean to her as she tries to resolve a situation that threatens her father’s reputation.

Nina In The Wilderness

Romance

Nina, aged 17, the sole survivor of a plane crash, suffers from the shattering of her life by the loss of her parents. Annie is uncertain about the meaning and direction of her life. Passionate love between Nina and Annie is at the heart of this novel, but it also portrays the love that inspires the devotion of true friendship.

Nina in the wilderness

In this last of the 14 classic lesbian novels by Sarah Aldridge, a staid, traditional college is pulled into the maelstrom of contemporary social issues when Professor Joan Etheridge is drawn into the nebulous world of the elusive Alice. Joan’s empathy for the seemingly lost and troubled Alice, surprising even to herself, leads her on an unexpected and life-changing journey. Contemporary voices for change assail Joan’s ivory tower, forcing her to examine her own ideals and helping her unravel her colleagues’ true motives and ethics. She must navigate the gulf between academic discussions of love, loyalty and personal values and real-world events demanding she take a stand on civil rights, reproductive freedom and most of all, consider where her own heart belongs

O, Mistress Mine

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