Two women who were major early benefactors of the University of California, and natural history collectors. Look ’em up. Alan Patrick Howard was born in Gateshead on 23rd April 1924. The pair bought a ten-acre plot in Shanghai and built a high school, a three-story hospital, and a tabernacle.”. I am completely fascinated by them. I came to the comment section just to say this and was happy to see someone else already had. They bought a house in 1946 which became known as the “Gay Spot,” a gathering place for the local black gay and lesbian community. I will always be pissed on behalf of twelve year-old queer girl who thought she was the only freak in the whole world because history had been so straightwashed (and because Ann M. Martin couldn’t put a queer girl in the BSC, but I digress). In 1977, Alan had an affair with an employee from the garage, Elaine Dennett. They were friends of Ellen Gates Starr and of Anna Rochester and Grace Hutchins. Eventually the two women — whose “mystical visions” had feminist and homoerotic undertones and often featured the other in divine contexts — decided they’d had it with white people and started their own family of black Shakers in Philadelphia, combining black female praying band traditions with Shaker theology. Gradually Elsie thawed towards Alan and she agreed to see in 1970 with him. In every part of the process, the tanner uses care and precision to clean, salt, and prepare the leather. To give the affluent couple a believable reason to live in Coronation Street, a storyline was written in which Alan was nearly declared bankrupt and had to sell his businesses to pay off debts. Lilian Faderman talks about them in “Surpassing the Love of Men.”, vita sackville-west and the eternal queen of my lez-lit-scholar heart, virginia woolf! Anna Elisabeth Schneider (1764-?) More importantly, she and “Lady Babs” did the best they could to create that community around them, “a world of independent-minded women, strong, self-sufficient, and resourceful.” UK power couples as above list very much of the US. In the touring revue Oh! Alan was Elsie's third husband but the only one to appear as a long-term character. Great list! Lesbians are well-known for our unique ability to find a girlfriend and then turn that romantic relationship into an all-consuming life partnership — starting businesses, pursuing activism, revolutionizing social services, erecting schools, liberating marginalized groups. Alan branched out from fixing cars at the earliest opportunity. Here’s an interesting couple from 18th Century UK When their children grew up they married each other and had a baby, resulting in both their mothers being grandmother to their biological grandchild! Lillian Smith had a lifelong relationship with Paula Snelling. Thanks for a great article! She met Lillian Foster in 1932, and they were inseparable until Lilian’s death, living together on 169th street in the Bronx and calling each other husband and wife. Awesome piece Riese! Heap maintained a low profile, signing her contributions simply “jh”, but she had a major impact on the success of the journal through its bold and radical content. You know, it was never mentioned when I was in Social Work school, that she was a lesbian. Only months later when Alan was on the cusp of being declared a bankrupt did he realise what a good thing he had with Elsie, and go back to Weatherfield to marry her. Laura also had a good head for business and owned a salon in Leeds which Alan managed for her. However, when Mark tried to drive a w… Toklas and Stein were together until Stein’s death in 1946. They were also, uh, aunt and niece, and were obsessed with their dog named Chow. She and Stone spent the next forty years together. They designed estates, parks, movie sets and botanical gardens. After leaving Coronation Street, Browning and Phoenix embarked on a 43-week stage tour performing in a play called Gaslight. that qualifies as getting shit done together, right? Alan compounded the situation by inviting Mark to stay over Christmas, causing Elsie to go berserk, which in turn led Alan to walk out. They were divorced in 1978. Alan arrived in Weatherfield in 1969 to open a salon, at which Elsie was hired as manageress. When Lucille Hewitt spotted the tattoo, she got Elsie interested in finding out why he had the tattoo and whose number it was. 675 million+ members | Manage your professional identity. Played by two famous Toronto sculptors: Frances Loring (1887–1968) and Florence Wyle (1881–1968). image via keeping & creating american communities. Edith, an Irish novelist and her cousin/girlfriend (listen it was a different time), Violet, co-wrote fourteen stories and novels under the name “Martin Ross.” Their most popular titles were The Real Charlotte and The Experiences of Irish R.M.. After Violet’s death, Edith was inconsolable, and decided to keep writing as Martin Ross, convinced the two were communicating through spiritualist séances, which I personally feel is totally legit. This draft counseling group was a root organization of the ACLU. To earn a living, Alan returned to the trade he knew best. Johnston was a pioneer in her field as one of the most successful female photographers in America, snagging cool gigs like shooting Edith Wharton’s Paris-adjacent villa, Booker T Washington’s face and Alice Roosevelt’s wedding. There’s also a play about them going on at Lincoln Center in NYC (though I think it only got extended through the first weekend of April?) This was so great! In October 1973, Elsie was given the opportunity to help set up Mark Brittain's new warehouse in Newcastle by working there as a short-term staff supervisor. Saved from davidnewkirk.com. All Rights Reserved. When Barbara turned up at the garage to given Alan a cheque, Billy got the full story from her, having initially suspected that Alan was playing away. The police in London identified her through Dennis and Alan was notified of her whereabouts. Supposedly she renounced this later? But yay for articles like this that heal the wounds! They hit it off right away, and shortly thereafter shuttled off to Atlanta to start a school for Black women who had been newly released from slavery. Art. See: http://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/sophonisba-love-law-school-pioneer-and-women-who-vied-her-affection, Breckinridge and Talbot left such a mark on the University that they had dorms named after them. Against expectations, they had a laugh together and the old spark between them was still in evidence. Empress Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel (1691 - 1750) depicted on her sarcophagus in the Kaisergruft (Imperial Crypt) in Vienna, Austria. Thanks for sharing this, I hadn’t heard of Claude and Marcel nor had I really heard of Gertrude Stein and her Nazi sympathizer-ness before either. I’d love to add Charlotte Cushman and Emma Stebbins. ‘In her, East and West have met with peculiar power.’…, In 1920 they founded the Bethel Mission on the then radical principle of Chinese and American equality. He had to eat his words when an accident did occur at the bonfire, as a spark landed in an open box of fireworks, setting them off and burning schoolboy Mark Hillkirk, who was badly burned. Berlin’s out lesbians and resistance fighters Hilde Radusch and Else “Eddy” Klopsch. According to Alan, they didn't have a loving marriage and it survived because of practicality and sex. I knew Ruth Ellis when I lived in Detroit, in the 1970s. Coronation Street Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. She was educated at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, which produced many leaders in the settlement house movement. It could be you, couldn't it?" Here’s Frances’ statement on women’s friendships. I stumbled on this on FB and really enjoyed it. since you know anne lister i’m sure you heard this news but if not, HBO and BBC are making a miniseries about her: https://www.themarysue.com/shibden-hall-hbo-bbc/, Love this list, but what about bestselling British author Marie Corelli (she wrote the top-selling book of the 1890s, “The Sorrows of Satan”) and her longtime companion Bertha Vyver, who wrote Marie’s biography after she died? Elsie didn't reply, preferring to let things continue as they were. However, when Mark tried to drive a wedge between the Howards by accusing Elsie of having a thing with Len, Alan saw through his tactics and assured him that there was no way he would return to Laura. I was expecting to see musicians Tiny and Ruby, whose story was told in the film: “Tiny and Ruby: Hell-Diving Women.”, Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier, from the twenties and WWII in Paris, For years I have thought Gay Braxton and Miss Mary Lee Griggs were Madison, WIsconsin’s lesbian power couple. The two women are now buried next to each other in Silver Lake Cemetery. ;). I have definite #relationshipgoals with some of them though, particularly the writers/illustrators. That’s Coman, not Conan. The ensuing argument set the precedent for their marriage. I’m currently working on a biography of social work educator and social justice activist Sophonisba Breckinridge, who had significant relationships with two women, Marion Talbot (Dean of Women at the University of Chicago), and Edith Abbott (Dean of the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago). After returning from their honeymoon in Paris, the Howards prepared to move into the house in Bramhall, while Alan bought a new white Mercedes. They were then positioned as “field matrons” at the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation, where they defied pressure to enforce white cultural values upon the Natives who lived there, and wrote the book In the Land of the Grasshopper Song. After forcing Janet to admit the same, and that she was merely lonely and infatuated with Alan, Elsie warned her off. We always tend to ... On that fateful day, a cow sacrifices its life in order to make this fine material. They traveled on the abolitionist lecture circuit, often along with the legendary Sojourner Truth. MARY WOOLLEY AND JEANETTE MARKS! The BLA is considered the forerunner of the American Civil Liberties Union, which was founded shortly thereafter, and which worked in tandem with the BLA towards common causes. Their relationship had ended in 1962 when Bill's hitherto unknown wife Phyllis surfaced, but she had died since that year leaving Bill free to pursue Elsie. In February, Elsie's old flame Bill Gregory - another Navy man - returned with the intention of marrying her. It’s never been really “mainstream” but there is quite a bit of evidence that “Stagecoach” Mary (Mary Fields) and Mary Amadeus (a nun) had a long-term lesbian relationship in the 1880’s-90’s. You must add the author, Daphne Du Maurier, and her lover Gertrude Lawrence, an actress. New Zealanders: See more ideas about full house, fuller house, michelle tanner. In the event, the move to Newcastle heralded not a new lease of life for the Howards' stormy marriage but its slow death. Guests included Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemmingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Thornton Wilder, Sherwood Anderson, Henri Matisse, Ethel Mars, Maud Hunt-Squire, Eleonara Sears, Eva Le Galienne and Francis Cyril Rose. I also recommend looking up Tove Jansson and Tuulikki Pietila, artist power couple of Finland/France and creator/supporter of the internationally successful Moomin franchise. Len Fairclough was an old Navy shipmate of Alan's and knew Elsie well. Back in the day, many women were held back from activism and entrepreneurship by the demands of marriage and motherhood, making some women-loving-women uniquely able to pursue civilization-shifting ventures. 704.7k Followers, 950 Following, 374 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Maxence Danet-Fauvel (@maxencefvl) we have a Facebook page for her, but still seek more information, Marguerite Yourcenar met her lifelong partner Grace Frick in 1939 in the USA Alan disagreed with Len Fairclough's assertion that fireworks were as dangerous to the children as guns, proffering his view that they were safe as long as precautions were taken. 1977: Elsie reads a letter from Alan asking for a divorce. The language was always discrete and respectful but for me it didn’t take long to glean that Miss Witherspoon and Miss Mygatt were an item. Her choice was Alan Browning, an experienced TV actor who had played the lead character Ellis Cooper in the BBC programme The Newcomers. your own Pins on Pinterest. The two became lovers, and Anderson convinced her to become co-editor of The Little Review. After a short romance, the couple got wed although their plans to move to Bramhall were shelved when Alan was declared insolvent and had to sell his assets to pay debts; instead they lived at 11 Coronation Street. You should probably look at Willa Cather and Edith Lewis. The story of two aristocratic ladies who eloped together to Wales in 1778 and lived happily ever after in a cottage ornée, surrounded by gardens full of Gothic follies. Their collected works are documented in the book Landscaping the American dream: the gardens and film sets of Florence Yoch, 1890-1972. I look forward to reading it! Elsie de Wolfe, the first female professional interior decorator, had what was then called a “Boston marriage” with theatrical producer Bessie Marbury. A few months later, Alan saw Elsie for the first time in a year when Mike Baldwin sent Elsie to Newcastle to interest buyers in Baldwin's Casuals's new denim designs. Colin had been put forward for the position by Janet Reid, who had once helped Alan with an application at the Town Hall when she'd been been a clerk there. (I know, not the greatest achievement in the history of U.S. social reform in retrospect.) Discover (and save!) We used to dance a lot. Alan admired Elsie's strength of character but didn't like being nagged. Create an account or log into Facebook. Alan waited to hear from Elsie, and after hearing nothing for two months he wrote to her asking if they had a future together. "Blonde hair, brown eyes?" Jane subsequently moved right along, in classic lesbian fashion, to Mary Rozet Smith, the daughter of a wealthy Chicago industrialist, who was very helpful to Addams’ various missions through other means. She taught English at Wellesley. They were friends of Stein-Toklas, and Beach kept her bookstore open practically until the last possible moment as the Nazis advanced on Paris. –>!!!! To provide the Howards with closure, Browning agreed to return for two episodes in January 1974 in which Alan told the residents they were staying in Newcastle and picked up their things from No.11. Total badasses!! The book will be published by the University of Illinois Press; in the meantime, for more information, see http://mag.uchicago.edu/law-policy-society/entangled-lives. “The loves of women for each other grow more numerous each day, and I have pondered much why these things were. Fortunately, when he did so Elsie was less bothered by the breach of trust and more that Laura was coming to see them. If the tanner delays in any way, the leather could become too dry too quickly. Wet For Her is an online sex toy retailer that's a welcoming space for queer women and the folx they love — celebrating a diverse range of bodies, genders, and orientations. For this installment, I’m focusing on couples who began their courtship prior to 1940. Yes!! your own Pins on Pinterest. 1972: Alan plays guitar in the ill-fated street band. Eventually the organization became the ACLU. George backed down and returned the case when Alan saw him and threatened him with the police. WOW. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Cushman And no mention of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks. First appearance Alla Nazimova & Glesca Marshall ~ best parties in Hollywood! They began working together on films and in 1930 and commissioned architect W.C. Tanner to build them a Hollywood Hills estate — Florence Yoch designed the gardens. Riese is the 39-year-old Co-Founder and CEO of Autostraddle.com as well as an award-winning writer, blogger, fictionist, copywriter, video-maker and aspiring cyber-performance artist who grew up in Michigan, lost her mind in New York and then headed West. The couple lived together from 1915 to the 1960’s. Phoenix came back to the programme in 1976, soon after Bill Podmore became its producer. Alan returned the favour by giving Billy a job there when he came back to Weatherfield. Elsie refused on Alan's behalf, telling Laura that the Howards weren't a charity case. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilde_Radusch#/editor/0. Future installments will obviously be more racially diverse as we move into eras where non-white people had more access to “power” and also more recorded histories. Rebecca Cox Jackson was raised in an African Methodist Episcopal family but, following a spiritual vision that put the voice of the divine within her, she broke off from the patriarchal church to start her own thing. thanks for introducing me to some fine women. With Elsie nagging him at home, Alan was glad to get away and he and Janet shared a kiss. I second this. i didn’t know jane addams was gay until now despite spending WEEKS on her and the social movements of the time. His creditors entered into a moratorium agreement to give him three months to pay them nine shillings in the pound - an agreement which Elsie forced him take seriously - but Alan retained this mindset even after getting out of the business world and going back to his trade. Sallie then joined Caroline in Lottsburg, where they integrated themselves with the community, operated their school year-round and unlike some future suffragettes, were dedicated to enabling, preserving and protecting the right of Black men to vote even when white women could not yet do so. When Wald moved into 265 Henry Street in 1895, the city had a handful of settlement houses; by 1911 it would have at least 70. Giles took over after Packard’s death in 1891. I’m convinced the ladies of Llangollen inspired the Northern Exposure episode about the founding of the town, Cicely. Romaine could only be found at the Musee Carnavalet. Elsie was cautious but open to being more than friends, while Alan, recently divorced from Laura, was firmly against it. Wonderful! Lilian was Queensland’s first female doctor. Marion Morgan & Dorothy Arzner only lived in there home in the Hollywood Hills until 1951. Alan preferred to solve his problems without telling Elsie, but his pride and yearning to move back up the career ladder impaired his judgement and often he needed Elsie to steer him in the right direction. Wow, typing with a toddler in tow is hard. En.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Lee_Bates. The deputy keeper, Elizabeth Tanner, paid her sixpence for the chores and by 6.30pm Elizabeth was slaking her thirst in the nearby Queen's Head pub at the junction of Fashion and Commercial Streets. Unable to meet halfway, they split up and Alan left Weatherfield. Let's have a personal and meaningful conversation and thanks for stopping by! Is she still writing for AS? "You are open, are you?" Cast of Coronation Street, 1960 Coronation Street is a British television soap opera/serial, initially produced by Granada Television. When the Howards returned from their honeymoon, Alan's creditors got together to force him to pay his debts, and Elsie discovered that Alan had married her on the promise of things he knew he couldn't provide, leading her to fear that he only wanted her for her house. They originated in England and ended their careers and lives in Australia. Photography.. 1969-1974, 1977 End of 19th century Germany. (The Coronation Street Story, Boxtree Ltd, 1995) Browning was cast but wasn't told that he'd been Phoenix's suggestion. Alan felt profusely sorry and immediately dissolved his partnership with Jimmy, seeing it as the source of their problems. I wrote a paper on them in undergrad, attempting to prove that they were a couple in the modern sense.
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