TY - JOUR
AU - Heal, Felicity
AB -  S H O RT E R N OT I C E S women of Lesbos, and tribadism were progressively suppressed. Subsequent chapters trace a similar transition towards a more elliptical form of lesbian expression, examining the poetry of Katherine Philips and her role in modelling the glories and dangers of eroticized female friendships; the `emerging Sapphic discourse' of writers such as Cavendish, Behn, and Manley; and the much less explicitly sexual poetry of friendship of Anne Finch, Jane Barker, and others. Central to all of this is the Restoration court, culminating in an exploration of the masque Calisto, in which Jove, in female disguise, rapes and impregnates one of Diana's nymphs. Performed at court in 1675, the cast included the young princesses Anne and Mary, whose passionate relations when young with at least one of their female friends led to bitter quarrels and romantic letters, and Sarah Jennings, later Sarah Churchill, whose later relations with Anne were so pivotal to courtly and national politics: it seems, comments Andreadis, `a harbinger of the complex erotic dynamics that later informed the court of Queen Anne'. By the time that the pamphlets of 1708 accused Anne's later intimate, Abigail Masham, of 
TI - Early Modern Visual Culture: Representation, Race and Empire in Renaissance Europe
JF - The English Historical Review
DO - 10.1093/ehr/118.475.215
DA - 2003-02-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/early-modern-visual-culture-representation-race-and-empire-in-zRAt6DIrSg
SP - 215
EP - 216
VL - 118
IS - 475
DP - DeepDyve
ER -