Today's new tag essays cover two topics in what I've grouped together as "literary relationships". That is, works where a sexual or romantic relationship between two women is either present or implied.
Here's a brief summary of what's covered. See the full essay for the list of works and the associated tag-links. The examples in this group focus less on genuine desire between women even in cases where gender disguise is involved but on those where the possibility of genuine desire is acknowledged by a pretense of it or sly references. These examples include scenarios where that possibility is recognized only by the audience of the work, not by the characters within it.
This is a genre that allowed the author both to write explicitly and often pornographically about sexual encounters between women while still discounting the importance of the relationship. In these works, one woman sexually initiates another with the excuse that she is being prepared for sexual relations with men.
The purpose of tags is to make information relatively easy to find. The second purpose is to provide a tag list that the visitor can use to explore the site.
The Place and Time Period tags each have a single essay. Tags will be covered in thematic groups in multiple essays due to the larger number. Obviously these categories are quite fuzzy at the edges, and I've classified individual people according to what seems the most noteworthy aspect of their lives. Every story is far more complex than a single classification.
