5 Sunday

February

Louis Christophe Lamoricière, one of the most distinguished generals of the nineteenth century and one of the rare self-confessed homosexuals in his own time, born at Nantes, 1806.

6 Monday

Anne, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, whose love affair with Sarah Jennings Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, has not been adequately studied by modern historians, born at Twickenham, 1665.

7 Tuesday

Julius III, "the most blatantly homosexual of all the homosexual popes," to whom Giovanni della Casa's In Laudem Sodomiae (In Praise of Sodomy) was supposedly dedicated, elected pope, 1550.

8 Wednesday

Ash Wednesday

Hannah Snell, who in a series of exploits as a British soldier and marine pursued other women amorously and who later appeared on the stage as "the female soldier," dies insane in Bedlam, 1792.

9 Thursday

Poet Amy Lowell, who, Mercedes de Acosta tells us, could spit a cigar tip into a spittoon fifteen feet away, born in Brookline, Massachusetts, 1874.

10 Friday

"Big Bill" Tilden, greatest tennis player of the first half of the twentieth century, whose penchant for teen-age boys earned him a jail term in 1947, born in Philadelphia, 1893.

11 Saturday

William Tilden II:

He was called "Big Bill."

John Breckenridge Ellis, author of The Holland Wolves (1902), one of the earliest American novels with a Sapphic theme, born near Hannibal, Missouri, 1870.