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Sep. 22nd, 2007 04:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
felis_ultharusSo I was doing research today on Lucy Maud Montgomery's lesbian stalker* --
(No, I couldn't resist starting an entry that way)
-- when I came across a reference to a short story by Great Canadian WriterTM Morley Callaghan, with queer content. The McGill library had a copy, so I checked it out.
The story -- which had the atrocious title of "No Man's Meat" -- is sexually explicit, so in 1931 it had to be published in France (this was before Canadians had heard about sex). It's about a man who makes a bet with a gambler on a roll of the dice, and wins a chance to sleep with her. He does, but she turns out to be a lesbian, and runs off with his wife.
You're probably not going to see this one in the New Canadian Library in the near future.
Starting in 1930, L.M. Montgomery, best known for Anne of Green Gables, began receiving fan letters from a 30-something Australian schoolteacher whom she identifies simply as Isobel. It quickly became obvious that Isobel was sexually obsessed with Montgomery (who was astonished that anyone would become obsessed with her at the age of 58), and was threatening to kill herself if Montgomery didn't return her affections. Montgomery claimed to be disgusted by the thought of having sex with a woman, but was surprisingly well-read in psychology, and considered homosexuality -- whioch she calls Homo-sexualism -- to be inborn.
(No, I couldn't resist starting an entry that way)
-- when I came across a reference to a short story by Great Canadian WriterTM Morley Callaghan, with queer content. The McGill library had a copy, so I checked it out.
The story -- which had the atrocious title of "No Man's Meat" -- is sexually explicit, so in 1931 it had to be published in France (this was before Canadians had heard about sex). It's about a man who makes a bet with a gambler on a roll of the dice, and wins a chance to sleep with her. He does, but she turns out to be a lesbian, and runs off with his wife.
You're probably not going to see this one in the New Canadian Library in the near future.
Starting in 1930, L.M. Montgomery, best known for Anne of Green Gables, began receiving fan letters from a 30-something Australian schoolteacher whom she identifies simply as Isobel. It quickly became obvious that Isobel was sexually obsessed with Montgomery (who was astonished that anyone would become obsessed with her at the age of 58), and was threatening to kill herself if Montgomery didn't return her affections. Montgomery claimed to be disgusted by the thought of having sex with a woman, but was surprisingly well-read in psychology, and considered homosexuality -- whioch she calls Homo-sexualism -- to be inborn.