LOVE LETTER: EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY AND EDITH WYNN MATTHISON
Love letters Edna St. Vincent Millay and Edith Wynne Matthison
LOVE LETTER: ELEANOR ROOSEVELT AND LORENA HICKOK
Love letters Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok to each other
LOVE LETTER: ALLEN GINSBERG AND PETER ORLOVSKY
Love letters Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky to each others
LOVE LETTER: MARGARET MEAD AND RUTH BENEDICT
love letters between anthropologists Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict.
LOVE LETTER: VIRGINIA WOOLF AND VITA SACKVILLE-WEST
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 […]
LOVE LETTER: Oscar Wilde AND Sir Alfred Taylor
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, Wilde writes to […]