Happy Pride, y'all. I had not anticipated that this *biography of Queen Anne published in 2012* would contain the sentence "[t]here is much debate both as to to the existence of lesbianism in seventeenth-century England [???!!!!!] and regarding the extent of awareness that women could sexually desire other women." The author is alert enough to realize that women could use that cultural ignorance to hide what they were doing, and yet somehow naive enough to think that Sarah Churchill didn't realize the nature of her own relationship with Anne. Sure, that's why she had her own letters burned. I'm calling for a moratorium on straight women writing biographies of queer women until they can figure out what the hell is going on. #bookstodon #wlw #history