“Unearthing Secrets: Judith Barrington’s Virginia’s Apple Reveals the Heart and Soul Beneath Shared Memories”
Barrington gives readers an up-close, inside look at England’s second-wave feminist movement, complete with hand-mimeographed newsletters, public demonstrations, and houses filled with defiant women, many of whom were lesbians.
But that identity — lesbian — was not one that Barrington always embraced, even after she’d had several love affairs with other women and come to realize that she preferred them over men. She was exploring her sexuality during a time few gay people let their preferences show publicly out of fear of violence. Barrington describes her first forays into relationships with women, and her longtime grappling with how to embrace her sexual identity, in several stories in this book.
