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Alfred douglas1/17/2024 ![]() DuMaurier married Frederick Browning, a military man, in 1932 and they had three children. With its famous opening line, ‘Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again’, it is set in the rugged land of Cornwall and tells the haunting story of a young girl consumed by love. Here, Tatler takes a look at 10 authors who may have been part of the LGBTQIA+ community.ĭaphne DuMaurier is remembered for her haunting novel, Rebecca, an international bestseller which has never gone out of print and sold 2.8 million copies between its publication in 19. Though we often have scarce evidence to prove with certainty that specific authors were involved in LGBTQIA+ relationships, in using a Queer lens to analyse either their literature or their letters, we can ascertain that specific authors experienced, or at least engaged with, homoeroticism. One might say they metaphorically hid their writing in drawers. Foucault argued that throughout history, authors had concealed (or alluded to) homoerotic themes in their writing. ![]() This was partly thanks to the post-structuralist philosopher Michel Foucault, who is often viewed as a key instigator of ‘Queer theory’, a lens of reading literature which viewed sexuality as socially constructed and rejected identity politics. In fact, it arguably was not until the rise of ‘Queer theory’ in the 1990s that literary critics started to fully address homoerotic themes which have permeated countless books in the English canon. ![]()
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