Article: Jane Rule, pioneer of lesbian fiction, dies at 76.(In memoriam)

Jane Rule, who died of cancer on November 27, 2007, at her home in Galiano Island off the coast of British Columbia, will undoubtedly be best remembered for her first published novel, 1964's Desert of the Heart. The book was pioneering not only for its lesbian content but for the "happy ending" it accorded the central characters. The film Desert Hearts, based Rule's novel, was made more than twenty years after the novel's publication and did much to bring Rule's name to prominence for a new generation of readers.

Only one full-length critical appraisal of Rule's works has been published to date: Marilyn Schuster's Passionate Communities: Reading Lesbian ...

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