I am musing over my love for Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller as well as Hammet by Maggie O’Farrell, but I haven’t heard of a story that is a female/female romance – or a feminine-leaning queer romance – that is also written as thoughtfully and beautifully, and giving the characters all their due complexity.
Historic, great. I’m thinking of the film Portrait of a Lady on Fire, and I am hoping for strong an intellectual connection between the two characters.
I am thinking of this as I read Maria Popova’s Figurings, and as I am reading through her revisiting writers and thinkers like Emily Dickinson and Margaret Fuller, both totally queer ✨
Thank you 💜
by VinnyTheStarter