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Article: "Lesbian love" from 'The Mysteries of New Orleans.' (fiction)(excerpt)
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- The Antioch Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 1995
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Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein (1826-1885), the elder son of an administrator of the Bavarian state customs service and scion of an ancient Franconian noble house, was shipped overseas in 1849 by his father for personal instability and possible sexual deviance. The Reizenstein family had been dysfunctional for years, and Ludwig's mother had been institutionalized for unspecified sexual irregularities. After a period of wandering in America, Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein settled in New Orleans in 1851, earning his living as a property-surveyor and painter of real estate sales posters. After two efforts to launch a satirical journal, he published a novel entitled Die Geheimnisse ...
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