“Unearthing Secrets: Judith Barrington’s Virginia’s Apple Reveals the Heart and Soul Beneath Shared Memories”

Writer Judith Barrington fondly remembers chanting these statements as she marched down London streets in the late 1960s and early 1970s, her arms linked with “women who refused to live in dead-end jobs, pornographic films, or dull or abusive marriages.”

“Our public presence refuted the nonsense of the bitter lesbian so often revealed at the end of novels to be the traitor or the poison pen letter writer,” Barrington recalls in one of 14 linked essays in her latest book, Virginia’s Apple: Collected Memoirs (Oregon State University Press; October 2024).

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