Strachey by Carrington, public domain March 1, 1880– Lytton Strachey: “Discretion is not the better part of biography.” I consider it my own experimental period, and like so many other lesbians attending small Liberal Arts colleges in the 1970s, I went through … [Read more...]
#QueerQuote: “Death May Beget Life, but Oppression Can Beget Nothing Other Than Itself.” – Charles Dickens, “A Tale of Two Cities”
Photo via Wikimedia Commons, public domain He is one of my favorite writers. A smart social critic, I welcome his opinions on the plight of the downtrodden in our own 21st century. George Bernard Shaw wrote that Great Expectations was more seditious than Karl Marx's Das … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Queer Victorian Artist, Simeon Solomon
October 9, 1840 - Simeon Solomon The Victorian era was a time of great technological achievements and cultural progress. Queen Victoria was a big promoter of the arts. She was a patron to many artists of different disciplines and encouraged their development. Yet, it was also … [Read more...]
#QueerQuote: “I Flutter All Ways, and Fly In None.” – George Eliot
BBC, via YouTube I'll watch any British television adaptation of a historical novel. Starting with PBS's Masterpiece Theater in the 1970s, long-form British television was an exotic commodity for West Coast American youth like me, and it proved to be a great introduction to … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Interior Designer, Elsie de Wolfe
December 20, 1865- Elsie de Wolfe: “I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.” Believe it or not, the founder of the profession of the modern Interior Designer was … [Read more...]
