26 Sunday

February/March

American patron of the arts Mabel Dodge Luhan, whose love affair with Violet Shillito is graphically recounted in

her autobiography, Intimate Memories, born in Buffalo, New York, 1879.

27 Monday

Samuel Loveman, author of the long poem "The Hermaphrodite" and a life-long friend of poet Hart Crane, dies at eighty-nine in New York, 1976.

28 Tuesday

Poet Stephen Spender, whose early friendship with Christopher Isherwood is celebrated in Christopher and His Friends, born in London, 1909.

1 Wednesday

English critic and biographer Lytton Strachey, whose homosexuality is better known than that of his sister Dorothy (the pseudonymous author of Olivia, an autobiographical lesbian novel), born in London, 1880.

2 Thursday

Horace Walpole, father of the gothic novel, whose life is a classic study of repressed homosexuality, dies in London, 1797.

3 Friday

By a vote of 82-62, the Connecticut House of Representatives defeats a bill that would have prohibited discrimination against homosexuals, 1976.

4 Saturday

Man Friday, a musical version of Robinson Crusoe in which Friday offers his body for the delectation of the shipwrecked mariner, bombs on Broadway, 1976.

Horace Walpole:

Strange doings in The Castle of Otranto.