Jane Rule was a teacher, activist, and writer who explored lesbian relationships and themes in her work. Her writing was regularly featured in the Body Politic, and also appeared in periodicals such as The Ladder. Her first novel, Desert of the Heart (1964), is considered a classic of lesbian literature and was adapted into a film in 1985. In 1978, she won the Canadian Author’s Association award for Best Novel for The Young in One Another’s Arm. Rule’s work is considered significant in that it portrayed the everyday lives of lesbian women in a time when it was considered taboo. Rule was awarded the Order of British Columbia in 1998 and the Order of Canada in 2007.
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Jane Vance Rule (altName)
[https://www.gg.ca/honour.aspx?id=10824&t=12&ln=Rule(https://goo.gl/uiMvxu)] Jane Rule (Main) |
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| Related Pages | Jane Rule on LGLC
Jane Rule on VIAF |
| Birth Date | 1931/03/28 |
| Birth Place | 502 Bad Gateway |
| Death Date | 2007/11/28 |
| Death Place | https://lglc.ca/place/GAL/ |
| Identities |
Lesbian
BG [ISBN:9781280114342] AmericanBG [ISBN:9781280114342] CanadianBG [ISBN:9781280114342] |
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Writer
notAfter(1961) - 1995 https://lglc.ca/event/n75.10 ISBN:9781280114342 Columnist“Jane Rule on Aids & the Fear of Death,” Body Politic, no. 95 (1983), p. 39 Professor of English HigherEducation1975/12/01 “Jane Rule: The Woman Behind Lesbian Images,” Body Politic, no. 21 (1975),p. 14 |
| Orders of Merit | Member of the Order of Canada (2006-10-05)Order of British Columbia (1998) |
| Associated People |
502 Bad Gateway
502 Bad Gateway
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| Associated Places |
University of British Columbia (Employee)
12/1/1975 “Jane Rule: The Woman Behind Lesbian Images,” Body Politic, no. 21 (1975),p. 14 |
| Associated Periodicals |
502 Bad Gateway (Columnist)
1979 - 1985 http://www.glbtq.com/literature/rule_j.html(http://goo.gl/mLUoUq) 502 Bad Gateway (Writer)BE [n75.10] |