Mrs. Snively, Julie & I in bed

Images 11 & 12 Where the Heart Lies: Image 12: Three in a Bed—Alice playfully renders secret desire in this photo of two women who appear to be contemplating hanky-panky (Alice and Eliza Snively) while their friend (Julia Martin) sleeps. Alice described Eliza, who separated from her husband a year after this photo was taken, as “a devil of a girl…a corker!”
Image 11: “No!"—Alice’s friend Trude Eccleston is posed turning away from a heterosexual proposition. The tombstone articulates her rejection.

Text by:
Lillian Faderman, author of SURPASSING THE LOVE OF MEN, ODD GIRLS AND TWILIGHT LOVERS, and TO BELIEVE IN WOMEN; and great admirer of Alice Austen’s photos of same-sex couples and gender-benders.