Queer Love Letters
Writing Queer: Iconic Writers Series
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5 min readAug 6, 2020
In place of the usual focus on a single writer, this session will simply be a collection of readings of various sorts that relate to love letter writing, especially by well known lgbtq writers.
Iris Murdoch on the Fluidity of Gender and Sexuality: Her Intensely Beautiful Love Letters to Brigid Brophy
In the link above, Maria Popova reviews the book Living on Paper (public library).) which collects the letters of novelist Iris Murdoch (1934–1995) Popova includes many extracts from Murdoch’s letters to Brophy.
The two women were bound by an intense intellectual entanglement, their letters strewn with allusions ranging from Plato to Proust. But there was also an intensity of a different sort and a different order — a love both passionate and deeply affectionate. They had a great deal in common. Both were polymaths and gifted writers…
