![]() ![]() ![]() Tipping the Velvet is a plot-driven lesbian coming-of-age story with graphic sexual content (described in one of the reviews of the novel as "the yummy bits"), including the infamous strap-on leather dildo. Eight months (and ten rejection letters) later, she succeeded. Waters began to seek out a publisher for her debut novel. ![]() She began to write her own historical lesbian novel, using the research she had done on her thesis, including spending hours reading up on 19 th century pornography and Victorian slang and vulgarities.Įighteen months after beginning Tipping the Velvet, she was finished. Waters was working on her PhD thesis on historical lesbian fiction when her annoyance piqued at the failure of authours to exploit the genre's potential. She described it herself as a lesbo-Victorian romp, and it would go on to become a favourite of modern lesbian fiction. Published in 1998 by Virago Publishing in the UK and in 1999 by Riverhead Publishing in the US, Tipping the Velvet was Sarah Waters’s debut novel. "Tipping the velvet" was Victorian-era slang for cunnilingus, and once you know that, you understand the basic theme of the book. ![]()
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