Awfully Devoted WomenThe lives of many lesbians who grew up before 1965 remain cloaked in mystery. Historians have turned the spotlight on upper middle class romantic friendships and on working class lesbian bars, but the lives of the lower middle class majority remain in the shadows. Drawing on a rich collection of archival sources and interviews, Awfully Devoted Women offers a nuanced portrait of middle class lesbianism in English Canada in the decades before the gay