please to rec

[aphrodite_mine]

Okay, I need help. 

Not like I have any time to watch or read things, like, at all, but my brain keeps obsessing and I'm more inclined to feed it than try and divert interest. 

I need, need, need pretty much ANY good historical thing with canon f/f romance and/or strong implications thereof. Please give me reasons to research old fashioned underpants.

Not willing to sit through, for example, five main dude characters for two seconds of femslash - though if it is quality enough I might be swayed. Aggressive heterosexuality is less offensive if women are the main characters. My examples below skew really white and western, but I'm definitely open to things that are NOT that as long as I can access the material. Era is flexible, but ideally pre-70s. Pretty much any genre also welcome, bonus for horror, thriller or psychodrama, but definitely not required.

Yes
- Sarah Waters
- Emma Donoghue
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire
- The Nevers
- Professor Marston & the Wonder Women
- Frida
- The Color Purple
- The Favorite

Borderline
- Mad Men
- Rome

On My List of Probably-Should-Watch/Probably-Would-Enjoy
- The Blechley Circle
- Call the Midwife
- Picnic at Hanging Rock (TV)
- Lizzie
- Benedetta

Comments

[gloss]

I haven't seen it, because Dominic West repulses me, but what about Colette (2018)? I love its director a lot.

eta: to read, there is of course also Shimmer and The Cosmopolitans by Sarah Schulman, both of which are set in the late 40s/50s

[gloss]

Okay, I woke up this morning flabbergasted that I hadn't mentioned Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie Macdonald (early 20th century, Nova Scotia and Harlem), but then I assumed someone else would have and/or that you've already read it. If you haven't, do! Content warnings aplenty but also one of the best novels I've ever read.

On the, uh, lighter end of the spectrum: I haven't read Olivia Waite's series (and those covers are godawful), but I've heard good things.

[gloss]

Also! Heyday by Marnie Woodrow has two narrative threads, both f/f, one of which is set in 1909.

[aphrodite_mine]

These are all excellent gaps in my current consumption! Fall On Your Knees was on a list long ago but had fallen off of my current one. I may even own it?! I'd love any content warning related to child abuse or non-con.

I've now got all of these on my current list! Thank you!

[gloss]

any content warning related to child abuse or non-con
...the book might not be a great choice, honestly. Its foundation is cross-generational incestuous abuse and there's a lot of domestic violence as well.

[aphrodite_mine]

Bah, my OCD is flared up right now so, definitely not in the immediate future. Thanks!!

[gloss]

Also, I haven't read this one, but Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo fits your criteria.