Tag: love letter

Love letters Edna St. Vincent Millay and Edith Wynne Matthison

Love letters Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok to each other

Love letters Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky to each others

love letters between anthropologists Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict.

The gender-bending protagonist in Virginia Woolf’s pioneering novel Orlando, which subverted censorship to revolutionize the politics of queer love, was based on the English poet Vita Sackville-West, Woolf’s onetime passionate lover and lifelong dear friend. The two women also exchanged some gorgeous love letters in real life. Here is one from Virginia to Vita from […]

Playwright Oscar Wilde was imprisoned for his “crime” of homosexuality, driven into bankruptcy and exile and finally succumbed to an untimely death. In June of 1891, Wilde met Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas, a 21-year-old Oxford undergraduate and talented poet. Their correspondence is seen as some of the most beautiful in history. In January of 1893, […]