@queernineteen

Online resource for queer nineteenth century studies! Submissions welcome!🌈📚 Run by @nboothjohnson

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We have a new look! Check out our updated website now: queernineteen.com/update-pos…
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Happy Birthday Aubrey Beardsley! This (Leo) artist was associated with The Yellow Book and illustrated Oscar Wilde's infamous play Salome.
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Happy Birthday Edith Simcox! Read her the biography of this (Leo) activist here: queernineteen.com/post/edith…
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Happy Birthday Anna Ruling! Read about this (Leo) lesbian feminist here: queernineteen.com/post/anna-…
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Happy Birthday to Russia's first lesbian poet, Sophia Parnok, who was born on this day in 1885. Read Rebecca Boyd's article on her here: queernineteen.com/post/sophi…
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Happy Birthday Gerard Manley Hopkins! Read about this (Leo) poet's queer writings here: queernineteen.com/post/gerar…
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Happy Birthday Henry Scott Tuke! This (Gemini) artist is most famous for his nautical work as well as paintings of young men sea bathing nude. What's your favourite of his paintings?
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Happy Birthday Dame Ethel Walker! This Scottish painter is well-known for her portraits, including female nudes, and is today widely understood as a queer woman. Do you have a favourite of her paintings?
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Happy Pride Month! Don't forget to check out the Midlands Art Papers (featuring yours truly) to see the exciting queer work going on in midlands museums! birmingham.ac.uk/research/pr…

Midlands Art Papers 8 (2025) - University of Birmingham

The 2025 issue focuses on queer work in museums and galleries in the Midlands.

birmingham.ac.uk
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Happy Birthday Ella Wesner! This (Gemini) drag king was one of the most famous Vaudeville performers. She had a well-documented affair with a female lover, Helen Mansfield.
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On this day in 1863, C.R. Ashbee was born. Read @AnnaS1891's article on this (Taurus) crafter here: queernineteen.com/post/marri…
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Happy Birthday Charles Haslewood Shannon! This artist lived with his long-term partner Charles Ricketts for over 50 years. Read about elements of his collection in the Birmingham Museums here: queernineteen.com/post/queer…
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Read @CeciliaRoseNS's article on Evelyn de Morgan's androgynous deathly figures here: queernineteen.com/post/evely…
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Happy Birthday Edward Prime-Stevenson! Read @musicologygeek's article about him here: queernineteen.com/post/that-…
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Happy Birthday Emma Cooper! This (Capricorn) poet was one half of the queer duo Michael Field alongside her aunt and lover, Katherine Bradley. Read their queer connection to the Birmingham Museums here: queernineteen.com/post/queer…
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Happy Birthday John Singer Sargent! Aside from the incredible Madame X, what's your favourite Singer Sargent painting?
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Happy Birthday Christina Rossetti! Read @medium2005's article on this (Sagittarius) poet here: queernineteen.com/post/chris…
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Happy Birthday Katherine Bradley! This (Scorpio) poet was one half of the queer duo Michael Field alongside her niece and lover, Edith Cooper. Read their queer connection to the Birmingham Museums here: queernineteen.com/post/queer…
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Happy birthday Princess Catherine Duleep Singh! Read Sophie-Constanze Bantle's biography of Singh here: queernineteen.com/post/princ…
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Happy birthday Lord Alfred Douglas! Read @soykriti's article on Douglas's Uranian poetry here: queernineteen.com/post/lord-…
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Replying to @queernineteen
I once wrote an MA thesis on how the newspapers during his trials distilled his personality & contemporary ideas/prejudices about queerness into a queer stereotype that still resonates until today & it changed the way I look at media depictions of queer people.
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