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Lady Mary Pierrepont, having a Bridget Jones moment in 1707:
“I have a mortal aversion to be an old maid; and a decaying oak before my window leafless, half rotten, and shaking its withered top, puts me in mind every morning of an antiquated virgin, bald, with rotten teeth, and shaking of palsy.”
She needn’t have worried too much; Lady Mary later became Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.
Early modern European freakery, and sexual politics, lesbian history and pop culture. Or whatsoever else I fancy.
The title is taken from one of my favourite 17thC homoerotic poems, by Katherine Philips: 'To my Excellent Lucasia, on our Friendship'.
