historical les/bi women

(Anonymous) 2018-08-21 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
which women of history are of interest to you

Re: historical les/bi women

(Anonymous) 2018-08-21 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Anne Lister.

Re: historical les/bi women

(Anonymous) 2018-08-21 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
i've always been interested in gertrude stein and her partner alice b toklas they ran in parisian circles with several well known artists and writers and were practically the only longterm monogamous members of lesbian parisian circles at the time

Re: historical les/bi women

(Anonymous) 2018-08-23 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
i like a lot of the non-long-term and non-monogamous ones

like Colette, Mathilde de Morny, Liane de Pougy, ~*~Natalie Clifford Barney~*~, Élisabeth de Gramont, Renée Vivien, Rachilde...

Re: historical les/bi women

(Anonymous) 2018-08-24 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
oh of course they're important too igss i'm just always interested in outliers and why they are the way they are etc

Re: historical les/bi women

(Anonymous) 2018-09-02 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Hortense Mancini! I saw this portrait of her at a museum:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hortense_Mancini#/media/File%3AHortenseManciniGodfreyKneller.jpg

The accompanying plaque said that she had a “colourful life” which I took to be code for “had sex with women”.

First as a married teenager with Sidonie de Courcelles (upon discovery, her husband packed them off to a nunnery...together) and later, whilst the mistress of Charles II, with his daughter Anne, Countess of Sussex. This latter affair included a friendly duel in their nightgowns and Anne taking to her bed kissing and weeping over a miniature of Hortense’s face.

Re: historical les/bi women

(Anonymous) 2018-09-02 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
wow she sounds incredibly hot

i totally would have fallen for her if i lived back then