26 Sunday

November/December

Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, an ardent feminist who in her day was called "the most distinguished sexual invert in the United States," born near Oswego, New York. □ Alma Routsong, who as "Isabel Miller" wrote the now-classic Patience and Sarah, born in Traverse City, Michigan, 1924.

27 Monday

English actress Fanny Kemble, who introduced Charlotte Cushman to her first love, Rosalie Kemble Sully, born in London, 1809.

28 Tuesday

English writer Maria Graham, who became the intimate companion and only friend of Maria Leopoldina, the unhappy empress of Brazil, dies in London, 1842.

29 Wednesday

An otherwise ghastly book about Tiny Tim reveals that the bizarre entertainer, who spells out all words dealing with s-e-x, once had a h-o-m-o-s-e-x-u-a-l experience and spilled his "s-e-e-d faster than anyone, in two seconds," 1976.

30 Thursday

Dr. Mary Edwards Walker:

Black tie, top hat, and tails.

The Israelite crown prince Jonathan, whose dates are forever lost in ancient history and who, the Bible tells us, was loved by the young King David with an intensity that "passeth the love of women," is here commemorated.

1 Friday

English occultist Aleister Crowley, who in his day was called "the wickedest man in the world" and who considered his book The Scented Garden of Abdullah the Satirist of Shiraz (1910) "a pederastic masterpiece," dies at seventy-two, 1947.

2 Saturday

H. Harkness Flagler, a member of the New York 400 and the close friend of Edward I. Stevenson who dedicated to him his gay children's book Left to Themselves, Being the Ordeal of Philip and Gerald (1891), born in Cleveland, Ohio, 1870.

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