Chris White is lecturer in Literature at Bolton Institute. She is the co-editor with Elaine Hobby of What Lesbians Do in Books, and has published a number of essays on nineteenth-century homosexuality and lesbianism.

'Well-judged, economical and shrewd.' - Alan Sinfield, Gay Times'Chris White's editorial approach is quite inspired. Instead of laying out the material chronologically, White presents along a continium based on what was sayable or not sayable about same-sex desire in the 1800s, moving from the permissable to the least.' - Lewis Gannett

• The Vere Street brothel case, 1810, Oscar Wilde, 'The Disciple', 1905, Oscar Wilde, 'Quia multum amavi', 1881, Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 20 February 1837, Havelock Ellis from 'My Life', 1916, Aleister Crowley, from White Stains, 1898, Aleister Crowley from The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, 1929.