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Bertram Cope's Year by Henry Blake Fuller (1857 - 1929)

Bertram Cope's Year by Henry Blake Fuller (1857 - 1929)

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This novel was perhaps the most daring and affirmative LGBT literature of the first two decades of the 20th century in America. In this story, Bertram Cope is a young college instructor, about twenty-four years old ("certainly not a day over twenty-five"), who is pursued by men and women, both younger and older than himself. In writing this novel, Fuller had to carefully craft his plot schemes so as not to offend the sensibilities of publishers. As a result, today's reader is left somewhat, but not entirely, confused about the precise feelings that characters develop for one another by the end of the book. Nevertheless, no publishing house would touch it, which ultimately required that Fuller go the self-publishing route.

Bertram Cope's Year was the first novel by an established American writer that dealt exclusively with the subject of homosexuality. Although it did not achieve the notariety it deserved at the time, it set the tone for the increasingly open discussion of gay themes in literary form. (Introduction by James K. White)Copyright Audiobooks, Podcasts and More
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  • Cope Takes His Degree

    Cope Takes His Degree
    Jul 4 2026
    13 mins
  • Cope In Danger Anew

    Cope In Danger Anew
    Jul 4 2026
    17 mins
  • Cope Finds Himself Committed

    Cope Finds Himself Committed
    Jul 4 2026
    16 mins
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