Portraits of forbidden love: Extraordinary images capture intimate displays of affection from 19th and 20th-century women who flouted the rules at a time when homosexuality was a criminal offence

Captured at a time when homosexuality was considered taboo, these remarkable images defiant women who flouted convention in the nineteenth and twentieth century.

Kissing, embracing and reclining in intimate positions, the incredible black-and-white photographs provide a rare glimpse into women who dared to display physical love in the 1800s and early 1900s.

The images capture Victorian and early-twentieth century females in intimate poses and showing a daring level of openness with one another for the era they were living in.

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