Ugh.

[helle_d]

Just found out, while totally virtuously working on my essay (well, for about five minutes at least...) that one of Renee Vivien's girlfriends, Hélène de Rothschild* (de Zuylen de Nyevelt and probably several other names too) had all her papers that she'd kept about Vivien and her art and stuff looted/destroyed by the Nazis during the occupation of

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[frith_in_thorns]

That's really interesting! I like daily history lessons about early 20th Century lesbians :D

[helle_d]

I love that Gwen/Morgana picture so much. It's one of my favourite 'this will make me feel better' images.

[frith_in_thorns]

I have this one too by the same artist, this is Jennifer/Teyla, my SGA ship :D

[helle_d]

Awwww... I barely even know who they are, but it is so adorable!

[littlered2]

Natalie Barney sounds immensely cool (except maybe for the infidelity).

I can't found out what happened to her herself - all my book says is that she was "thrown by the Nazis on the paths of exile"

That seems an oddly poetic way of putting it.

[helle_d]

Yeah, it's less odd sounding in French, but still weird phrasing.
Natalie Barney had moral objections to monogamy (or something...), which caued problems, because all of her long term raltionships were with women who would actually quite like her to themselves, please. Romaine Brooks had a relationship on-again off-again with her for 50 years, and I think by the end she'd hoped that after all her main rivals died off, she'd have NAtalie to herself at last. (Natalie Barney was also a fascist for awhile, so not entirely cool. But she was so refreshing free of complexes or guilt over her sexuality.)

[littlered2]

It sounds like The Wanderer. ("Wraeclastas" is "the paths of the exile", I think; my OE books aren't to hand.)

Waiting for rivals to die sounds like a sensible way of pursuing monogamy! And yes, fascism is awful, but being openly gay and fine with it in that period was rare enough to be awesome.

[frith_in_thorns]

Hello, I'm friending you because I keep seeing you being cool in helle's posts :D (I'm also the person that posted the youtube video in the comment thread on helle's FB status earlier, if that makes me sound less creepy?)