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‘In 1778, two Irish gentlewomen put on men’s clothing and ran away together. Lady Eleanor Butler had received several offers of marriage but was determined to share her life with her friend Sarah Ponsonby. […] They spent the rest of their lives in a black and white house called Plas Newydd outside Llangollen, cultivating their garden, improving their minds and filling the house with clocks, cabinets and “whirligigs of every shape and hue”. [They also had] a little dog called Sapho.’
The Recognition of Śakuntalā, Kālidāsa/Sappho and Phao, John Lyle/Raja Ravi Varma
i love you and for that you must die
just a bite
frankenstein but make it sapphic
Regency lesbians crawling around in my head
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"someone will remember us, I say, even in another time"
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call me a lesbian but i JUMPED for this book when I saw it at my local bookstore. ive already read it twice, and im in love
her poems are enrapturing, attention grasping, and overall beautiful. i'm not even kidding when i say these fragments top any other completed poem ive read
will never not suggest this book to people, it is 100% worth the read. my copies already heavily annotated
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afraid of losing you
i ran fluttering
like a little girl
after her mother
afraid of losing you, sappho
Meet Umbra and Kashi! One is a werewolf and the other a noble. Both trying to escape their pasts.
Digital Play #2: Sappho Awaits Her Goddess, Aphrodite: “… if only I, O goldencrowned Aphrodite, / could win this lot…” [Anne Carson, _If Not, Winter_; #33, Knopf, 2002]. 11/26/2017.