Comments | johanna_hypatia: Buckingham Palace, 1885

johanna_hypatia

Buckingham Palace, 1885

Jan 13, 2008 22:28

William Gladstone: Your Majesty, work on the Criminal Law Amendment is nearing completion in Parliament. I am pleased to inform Your Majesty that we shall be undertaking to outlaw every manner of... indecent behaviour ( Read more... )

history, britain, lesbian, victorian, satire, writing

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cmcmck January 14 2008, 19:37:15 UTC

This is, of course, a hoary old historical myth- it was actually HMG (if my memory serves, Henry Labouchére, the framer of the CLAA) who thought the 'practice' beneath their notice. Dear old Queen Victoria appears to have been a much broader minded character than she is generally given credit for!

johanna_hypatia January 15 2008, 00:19:30 UTC

True or not, it was too good to leave alone.

cmcmck January 15 2008, 12:32:08 UTC

True....it's a wonderful story- did you ever get hold of the delightful cartoon strip adventure book: 'The secret life of Queen Victoria'? It's hysterical :o)

johanna_hypatia January 15 2008, 18:10:48 UTC

I momentarily imagined this piece as part of a series titled Scenes from Lesbian Lore and Legend....
did you ever get hold of the delightful cartoon strip adventure book: 'The secret life of Queen Victoria'? It's hysterical :o)
Thank you, I'm ordering it. Amazon has a British imprint of it at a low price, fancy that.