Tipping the velvet what does it mean

I had hoped that lesbians might like it — and was thrilled when, very quickly, helped along by word of mouth, Tipping the Velvet began to find enthusiastic gay fans. But the success of the novel among straighter readers took me by surprise. And when, in , the novel was adapted by Andrew Davies for the BBC, the story was sold to viewers, and promoted by tabloid newspapers, largely on its titillation value. Actually, the novel is slightly older than I wrote the first draft of it in , having dreamed up the characters and plot over the previous year or so, while finishing a PhD.

I did much gleeful planning on bicycle rides to and from the Round Reading Room of the old British Library. I remember the mids as a rather electric time to be gay, and young, and living in London.

There was a lot to be angry about, but also a lot to celebrate and relish. Grassroots direct action groups such as OutRage! Queer theory was beginning to have an impact on ideas about sex, gender and identity. Were they sexually oppressive? Might it make them more feminist if they were shaped like dolphins? It was also an electric time to be a reader. Nor, importantly, would those books have been available to me without the heroic gay and feminist small presses and bookshops of the era.

Inspiring, too, was the fact that ambitious gay writing was finding a place in the mainstream. Tipping the Velvet had a fast-paced, riotous, and deliciously naughty plot, with vivid characters and a happy ending , but the narrative structure was strictly linear. For the first time in a long time, Tipping the Velvet will be accessible to American audiences. The series is finally available to stream on BritBox this month.

The title is an obscure Victorian pornographic slang reference to cunnilingus. Nick Rennison in Contemporary British Authors characterises Tipping the Velvet as an "unabashed and unapologetic celebration of lesbian eroticism and sexual diversity".

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