Notable Lesbians
This week’s Notable Lesbian is:
Sarah Waters
1966 -
Sarah Waters is a British novelist.
She is best known for her novels set in Victorian society, such as Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith. She grew up in a family that included her father, mother, and sister. Her mother was a housewife and her father an engineer who worked on oil refineries. She describes her family as “pretty idyllic, very safe and nurturing.” Her father, “a fantastically creative person,” encouraged her to build and invent. Waters was a “completely tomboyish child”, but “got into” femininity in her teenage years. She had always been attracted to boys, and it was not until university that she first fell in love with a woman.
Interesting tid bit:
Before writing novels, Waters worked as an academic, earning a doctorate and teaching.Waters went directly from her doctoral thesis to her first novel. It was during the process of writing her thesis that she thought she would write a novel; she began as soon as the thesis was complete. Her work is very research-intensive, which is an aspect she enjoys. All of her books contain lesbian themes, and she does not mind being labeled a lesbian writer. She said, “I’m writing with a clear lesbian agenda in the novels. It’s right there at the heart of the books.” She calls it “incidental,” because of her own sexual orientation. “That’s how it is in my life, and that’s how it is, really, for most lesbian and gay people, isn’t it? It’s sort of just there in your life.”
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