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Tipping the velvet

The story of a "girl-in-trousers" in 1890s England. She is a lesbian fishmonger who gains entry into the libertine world of music halls by an affair with a singer, becoming her partner in a cross-dressing show. But drama follows when the other goes straight.

Main Author: Waters, Sarah, 1966-
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: London : Virago, 1999.
Subjects:
Lesbians > England > Fiction.
Lesbians > Fiction.
England > Social life and customs > 19th century > Fiction.
Picaresque literature.
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Summary: The story of a "girl-in-trousers" in 1890s England. She is a lesbian fishmonger who gains entry into the libertine world of music halls by an affair with a singer, becoming her partner in a cross-dressing show. But drama follows when the other goes straight.
Physical Description: 472 p.
Awards: Lambda Literary Award, 1999
ISBN: 9781860495243
Author Notes: Sarah Waters was born in Wales in 1966. She has a Ph.D. in English. She is the author of several books including Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, The Night Watch, and The Paying Guests. Fingersmith won the CWA Ellis Peters Dagger Award for Historical Crime Fiction and the South Bank Show Award for Literature. She has won a Betty Trask Award and the Somerset Maugham Award. In 2003, she was chosen as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists and was named Author of the Year by the British Book Awards, The Booksellers' Association and Waterstone's Booksellers. Several of her novels have been adapted for television.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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