Research into the LGBTQ+ history of Wales
The hero of the following sketch, though now too wealthy to incur adventures such as the one I am about to tell, is, in other respects, so unchanged, that our fair Amalekites will readily guess who sat for this portrait, even if they have not previously heard the tale from the original’s own lips:- Beneath the starlight, uneclipsed … Read More “Short story: The Conquest, or a Mail Companion (1837)” »
Norena Shopland The mystery genre has always been a good home for the diversity of characters. One of the first twentieth-century stories to feature a queer character in the UK is Arthur Conan Doyle’s (1859-1930) short story The Man with the Watches originally published in the Strand magazine in 1898 but in book form in … Read More “Queering ‘The Murder of My Aunt’ (1934)” »
In 1682 Wallography; Or The Britton Describ’d: Being a Pleasant Relation of a Journey into Wales, &c. was published. Written by William Richards it satirises the habits, history, architecture, and social mores of the Welsh. It was reprinted in 1738 by Edward Holdsworth, John Torbuck, and Samuel Cobb and retitled A Collection of Welsh Travels, and … Read More “Woman in the Habit of a Man” »
There were numerous reports in newspapers around the world about women who cross-lived as men and married women. One of the most famous is James Allen (more on Wikipedia) and this article appeared in the Carmarthen Journal in 1829. “The following particulars have been collected relative to the female who styled herself James Allen, and … Read More “The Female Husband” »
TWO WOMEN The sweet remembrance of clinging kisses Out of her life she tore, Till all was black where it once was shining, And cold where it once was warm; The tempest raged in her soul’s abysses, With torrent and flash and roar. But she passed unshrinking and unrepining Into the heart of the storm … Read More “Is this a lesbian poem?” »
