147:, daughter of mechanical engineer Winslow Howard Foster (b. January 10, 1869) and Anna Mabel Burr. Her family originated from New England, and at least three of their female ancestors were condemned as witches in the seventeenth century. After being sent to Sunday School aged 4, Foster developed an infatuation with a female teacher there, and in 1908 came across a story in
243:, who founded the first national lesbian writers' conference in the United States. Taylor dedicated the first conference in 1974 to Foster. In October 1974, after Foster was awarded the Stonewall Book Award, Valerie Taylor published a tribute to her in the Chicago Gay Crusader, underlining the importance of
214:. Foster's health had begun to decline in the mid-1960s, and on 7 January 1974 she had lumbar spinal surgery which left her with nerve damage. Foster opted to move into a nursing home to avoid burdening her companions with her care, and on 1 April 1975 she moved into the nearby
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in which a girl develops an infatuation with an older girl at boarding school. This first encounter with female same-sex desire in print marked the beginning of her search for female 'sex variants' in literature.
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In 1952 Foster left the
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from 1937 to 1948, and went on to become the librarian at the
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Jeannette Howard Foster was born on November 3, 1895, in
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Sex Variant Woman: The Life of Jeannette Howard Foster
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during the years 1948 to 1952, where she worked with
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The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture.
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2192:E. Patrick Johnson
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1654:Christopher Clason
1633:Albert N. Williams
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1565:About Face Theatre
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