Catalogue of related LGBTQ Materials December 2020

Outreach Cumbria: Celebrate Project http://www.outreachcumbria.org.uk/celebrate-project.php

Outreach Cumbria have produced a booklet called, Celebrate LGBT History in Cumbria, 2016. This booklet discusses LGBT history in Cumbria, with source references. Copies are held at,

Carlisle public library: Jackson library: VF A 306.76 Carlisle Archive Centre, Carlisle, Cumbria. https://archiveweb.cumbria.gov.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx? src=CalmView.Catalog&id=BDSO+157 See also, an Outreach archive at Carlisle Archive Centre, Carlisle, Cumbria, with varied LGBT material which dates from 1980-2016 http://archiveweb.cumbria.gov.uk/calmview/Record.aspx? src=CalmView.Catalog&id=DSO+418&pos=2

Dora Carrington and Watendlath Farm

Dora Carrington, (1893-1932), is an artist with LGBT associations, who has painted a famous picture of the farmhouse in the Cumbrian hamlet of Watendlath. The picture is now in the possession of the Tate Gallery.

The papers of Miss Joy Martin Reference DX2308, Cumbria Archives and Local Studies Centre, Petteril Bank Road, Carlisle, CA1 3AJ. These papers, by a local historian, Joy Martin, relate to Dora Carrington's painting of Watendlath, Cumbria, Farm at Watendlath, 1921. They include Joy Martin's correspondence with the Tate Gallery, a diagram of the painting, and black and white photographs of the farmhouse and area in which Dora Carrington stayed.

Jane Hill. The Art of Dora Carrington. The Herbert Press, 1994 Carlisle public library: 759.2 Kendal public library: 759 CAR This book on Carrrington's art includes a plate of Carrington's painting of Watendlath Farm.

Ed. David Garnett. Carrington: Letters and Extracts from her Diaries. Jonathan Cape, 1970. With a biographical note by Noel Carrington. Also issued by Oxford University Press, 1979. P.170 has a plate of the painting, while pp.188-194 refer to the holiday by Carrington and others at Watendlath. Carrington's drawing from inside the Watendlath farmhouse, in which she stayed, is on p.190. See also pp. 192-3. Gretchen Gerzina. Carrington. Oxford University Press, 1989. Pp.176-180 refer to the Watendlath holiday, and Carrington's drawing from inside the farmhouse is reproduced on p.176 https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/carrington-farm-at-watendlath-t04945 The Tate Gallery, which holds Carrington's painting, provides useful information on this webpage. Eliza Lynn Linton

Eliza Lynn Linton, (1822-1898), was a writer who was born in Crosthwaite, Cumbria. Record of Eliza Lynn's birth. https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=R_872910615 Cumbria public libraries have a subscription to findmypast. The Lake Country. Smith Elder, London: 1864 This non fiction book about the landscape of the also contains engravings by William Linton. It may be found in, Barrow-in-Furness public library: LC300C/LIN Carlisle public library: Reserve stock; Jackson Library: C 208 Kendal public library: WOO(91) Keswick public library: C910 LIN Whitehaven Record Office: 46 LIN Workington public library: C910 LIN Sowing the Wind, Tinsley Bros, 1867 The first edition of this novel is in Carlisle public library: Jackson Library: K3Eds Deborah T. Meem and Kate Holterhoff. Sowing the Wind. Victorian Secrets, 2015 Ed. Deborah T. Meem. Eliza Lynn Linton. The Rebel of the Family. Peterborough, Ont. ; Orchard Park, NY : Broadview Press, 2002 The Rebel of the Family. 3 Vols, Chatto & Windus: London, 1880

The Autobiography of Christopher Kirkland, Richard Bentley, 1885 The first edition of this novel is in Carlisle public library: RS CUMBRIA; Jackson Library: 1 F LIN Eds Deborah T. Meem and Kate Holterhoff. The Autobiography of Christopher Kirkland, Brighton : Victorian Secrets, 2011 Kendal public library: LOCALFIC George Somes Layard. Mrs. Lynn Linton, her life, letters and opinions. London: Methuen, 1901 https://archive.org/details/mrslynnlintonher00layarich/page/n8/mode/2up There are copies of this biography in the public libraries of, Barrow-in-Furness: Reference section, LC309EC/LIN Carlisle: Reserve stock and in the Jackson Library: B 9 Keswick: C920 LIN Whitehaven 52 LIN Nancy Fix Anderson. Woman against women in Victorian : a life of Eliza Lynn Linton. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c.1987 This biography discusses the queer aspects of Eliza Lynn Linton, and her literary works. Deborah T. Meem. "Eliza Lynn Linton and the Rise of Lesbian Consciousness", in Journal of the History of Sexuality, 1 April 1997, Vol.7(4), pp.537-560 Available free by registering with JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3704160 Nathalie Saudo-Welby. "Queering Christopher Kirkland (1885): Eliza Lynn Linton’s “Autobiography-in-Drag”." E-rea 16.16.2 (2019): E-rea, 14 June 2019. This article is available free online: https://journals.openedition.org/erea/7606 Valerie Sanders. Private Lives of Victorian Women: autobiography in nineteenth century England. New York. St Martin's Press, 1989. Eliza's autobiography is described as "transvestite" on p.91. Herbert van Thal. Eliza Lynn Linton. Allen & Unwin, 1979 This book is held in, Barrow-in-Furness public library: Fred Barnes Collection: LC321.1 EC/LIN Carlisle public library: Jackson Library: 1 H LIN Keswick public library: C920 LIN The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry on Eliza Lynn Linton. https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/16742 This is viewable via the number on a Cumbria public library card.

Mary Wakefield

Augusta Mary Wakefield, (1853-1910), was a talented singer and musician, who was born in Kendal, Cumbria. Record of Mary Wakefield's birth. https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=BMD%2FB%2F1853%2F3%2FAZ %2F001062%2F035 Cumbria public libraries have a subscription to findmypast. Rosa Newmarch. Mary Wakefield, a memoir. Kendal: Atkinson & Pollitt, 1912. This memoir of Mary Wakefield, by her friend, the musicologist, Rosa Newmarch, is the key source for Wakefield's life. You can download a pdf of this publication on The Mary Wakefield Westmorland Festival website: http://www.mwwf.org.uk/the-history-of-the-festival.html There are reference copies of the book in, Barrow-in-Furness public library: Fred Barnes Collection: LC100EC/WAK Carlisle public library: Jackson library: B328 Kendal public library: Local studies: WOO (780) Sophie Fuller, ' Devoted Attention": Looking for Lesbian Musicians in Fin-de-Siècle Britain', in Sophie Fuller, and Lloyd Whitesell. Queer Episodes in Music and Modern Identity. Urbana; [Great Britain]: U of Illinois, 2002 Catherine Maxwell. Sappho, Mary Wakefield, and Vernon Lee's 'a Wicked Voice'.” The Modern Language Review 102.4 (2007): 960-74. Available free by registering with JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20467544 Irene Cooper Willis. Vernon Lee's Letters. 1937. Privately printed, rare. Maude Valérie White. Friends and Memories. London: Edward Arnold, 1914 https://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/6924017.festival-founder-honoured/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedgwick_House,_Cumbria

Thomas Baty

Thomas Baty, (1869-1954), was a gender radical, born in Carlisle, Cumbria. He helped to produce the periodical, , and used the female pseudonym, Irene Clyde. Record of Thomas Baty's birth in 1869 https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=BMD/B/1869/1/AZ/000046/116 Record of Thomas Baty on the passenger list for his voyage to Japan in 1916. https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=TNA/BT27/0876000060/00003 Cumbria public libraries have a subscription to findmypast. Thomas Baty. Alone in Japan : the reminiscences of an international jurist resident in Japan 1916-1954. Tokyo : Maruzen, 1959 Ed. Motokichi Hasegawa. Copies of Urania are held at The Glasgow Women's Library, the London School of Economics, and The Women’s Library at London Metropolitan University. Issues of Urania are split between these three repositories. https://womenslibrary.org.uk/explore-the-library-and-archive/lgbtq-collections-online-resource/the- politics-of-urania This webpage contains the edition of "The Freewoman", with Thomas Baty's letter advertising the Aëthnic Union, which you may view or download. https://modjourn.org/issue/bdr518277 Emily Hamer. Britannia's Glory: A History of Twentieth Century Lesbians. London: Bloomsbury, 2016 This discusses Thomas Baty, Irene Clyde, Beatrice the Sixteenth, and "Urania" on pp.67-73 Angela Ingram and Daphne Patai. Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers, 1889-1939. Chapel Hill ; London: University of North Carolina Press, 1993 These authors have done important work in identifying the persona of Irene Clyde with Thomas Baty. Hugh L. Keenleyside. Memoirs of Hugh L. Keenleyside, Vol. 1, Hammer the Golden Day. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart 1981-1982, pp. 330-331 Peter Oblas. "Britain's First Traitor of the Pacific War: Employment and Obsession", New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 7, 2 (December, 2005): 109-133 Available online here: http://www.asia-studies.com/2nzjas72.html Peter Oblas. "In Defence of Japan in China: One Man's Quest for the Logic of Sovereignty", New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 3, 2 (December, 2001): 73-90 Available online here: http://www.nzasia.org.nz/journal/volume3_2.html Alison Oram. "Feminism, Androgyny and Love between Women in Urania, 1916-1940", Media History, Vol. 7, No. 1, 2001 Judith Ann Smith. MA thesis. “Genealogies of desire : "Uranianism", mysticism and science in Britain, 1889-1940”. University of British Columbia, 2005. Available online here: https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0066742 Karen Steele, "A Case Study of Urania (1916-1940)" in Ed. Catherine Clay. Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939: The Interwar Period. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018 Melanie Taylor. D.Phil thesis. “Changing Subjects: Consciousness and the 1920s”. University of York, July, 2000. Available online: https://core.ac.uk/reader/42604822 Eds Sonja Tiernan and Mary McAuliffe. Sapphists and Sexologists; Histories of Sexualities, Vol. 2. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2009 This discusses "Urania" in chapter 5. Sonja Tierman. " 'No Measures of Emancipation or Equality Will Suffice': Eva Gore-Booth's Revolutionary Feminism in the Journal Urania". In Eds Sarah O'Connor and Christopher C. Shepard. Women, Social and Cultural Change in Twentieth Century Ireland: Dissenting Voices? Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008 Sonja Tiernan. " 'Engagements Dissolved': Eva Gore-Booth, Urania, and the Radical Challenge to Marriage", chapter seven, in Eds Mary McAuliffe and Sonja Tiernan, Tribades, Tommies and Transgressives: Histories of Sexualities Volume I. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008, pp. 128-44 Sonja Tiernan. Eva Gore-Booth: an image of such politics. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012 Tiernan discusses the Aëthnic Union established by Thomas Baty; its newsletter, the Phoenix, and its supporters; she also discusses in detail Eva Gore-Booth's phrase, "sex is an accident" in chapter 11.

Hugh Walpole

Hugh Walpole, (1884-1941), was a novelist, who lived in Brackenburn, , in the Lake District, Cumbria, from 1924, until his death. Rupert Hart-Davis. Hugh Walpole: a biography. Macmillan, 1952. There are reference copies of this book in, Barrow-in-Furness public library: Fred Barnes Collection: LC300EC/WAL Carlisle public library: Jackson library: 1 H WAL Keswick public library: Local Studies: C820 WAL Whitehaven public library: Local Studies: 52 WAL The Penrith Observer, 3 June, 1941, p.2 Obituary on Hugh Walpole. This piece is of interest, as it refers to Hugh Walpole as a bachelor, and makes no reference to his homosexuality or to his homosexual relationships. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, entry on Sir Hugh Walpole. https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/36711 This is viewable via the number on a Cumbria public library card.

Kris Kirk

Kris Kirk, (1950-1993), was born in Carlisle, Cumbria, and wrote journalism as an openly gay man. Kris Kirk, Ed Heath. Men In Frocks. London: Gay Men's Press GMP Publishers Ltd, 1984 Edited and introduced by Richard Smith; foreword by Boy George. A Boy Called Mary: Kris Kirk's Greatest Hits. Brighton: Millivres, 1999 "A Descent into Darkness", Gay Times, June, 1992 "A Boy Called Mary". Television episode about Kris Kirk in the series, "Six of Hearts", directed by Paul Oremland. Broadcast on Saturday 15 November, 1986. Peter Burton. Obituary: Kris Kirk, The Independent, Thursday, 29 April, 1993 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-kris-kirk-1458012.html Peter Burton. Obituary. The Stage, p. 25, Thursday, 27 May, 1993 Nottinghamshire's “Queer Bulletin", No. 70, February/March 2013 At http://www.nottsrh.webeden.co.uk/qb/4540911171

Lynne Janine Braithwaite Lynne Janine Braithwaite, (1934-2008), grew up as Lawrence James; she became Lynne Janine in 1994, and subsequently, a transgender advisor

Books including, Diaries of a Transfemale, and Diaries of a Transfemale Book 2 http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewworks_all.asp?Authorid=13527 https://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewwork.asp?AuthorID=13527&id=9621 https://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewwork.asp?AuthorID=13527&id=9935

An obituary, published by the Westmorland Gazette, on 28 August, 2008. https://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/3629109.mrs-l-braithwaite/

This page on the British Library Sounds website contains a five minute clip of Lynne Janine Braithwaite reminiscing about her childhood, near Hawkshead and Grizedale, by Lake Windermere, in the Lake District, for the period just before, and during, the Second World War. It was recorded in November, 1998. https://sounds.bl.uk/Accents-and-dialects/Millenium-memory-bank/021M-C0900X08001X- 0400V1#_

Grain: Gay Rural Aid and Information Network

A LGBT newsletter for rural areas in Britain, which is relevant to Cumbria. London School of Economics: Hall-Carpenter archives: HCA/JOURNALS/545A Issues from 1977-1986 https://archives.lse.ac.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=HCA%2fEPHEMERA %2f556&pos=1

Miscellaneous local newspaper articles and news stories

These newspapers are available, digitised, on the British Newspaper Archive website, to which Cumbria public libraries have a subscription. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/ Cumbria public libraries and archive centres also hold physical copies, and microfilms. https://cumbria.gov.uk/libraries/localstudies/newspaper.asp In the case of very recent news stories, from 2000 onwards, the newspaper or news reference is available online, by following the url.

Cumberland Pacquet, and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser, 13 May, 1806, p.3 Pacquet, and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser, 2 September, 1806, p.3 These two reports from this Cumbrian newspaper cover the “remarkable trials” of men for sodomy, in Lancaster, 1806.

Cumberland Pacquet, and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser, 1 August, 1826, p.3 This reports on the death of James Clough, Blackburn, an intersex person.

The Penrith Observer, 10 November, 1953, pp.5-6 An opinion column, entitled, "Moral Standards", with a later heading, “Stigma”, which is critical of homosexuality. Gay marriage and civil partnerships in Cumbria https://www.timesandstar.co.uk/news/17060572.17-gay-couples-apply-to-be-married/ 9 December, 2005

Cumbria police and LGBT hate crime https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cumbria-19691391 23 September, 2012 https://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/10194498.cumbria-police-appoint-lesbian-and-gay- liaison-officers-to-encourage-hate-crime-victims-to-report-abuse/ 30th January 2013

Cumbria's first LGBT history exhibition https://www.itv.com/news/border/2016-09-12/first-ever-lgbt-history-exhibition-opens-in-cumbria/ 12 September, 2016

Carlisle LGBTHQ https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/16754882.lgbt-headquarters-finds-new-carlisle-hq/ 19th March 2017

Cumbria Pride https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/17935512.pride-brings-us-together/ 30 September, 2019

LGBT+ Within and Beyond Exhibition, at the Museum of Lakeland Life, Kendal https://www.cumbriacrack.com/2019/10/01/lgbt-within-and-beyond/ 1 October, 2019

General useful information

British Library LGBT resources and timeline https://www.bl.uk/lgbtq-histories/lgbtq-timeline#Marriage%20(Same-Sex%20Couples)%20Act https://www.bl.uk/lgbtq-histories https://www.bl.uk/lgbtq-histories/articles/lgbtq-themes-in-british-library-collections https://lgbthistoryuk.org/wiki/Main_Page https://lgbtcumbrialanguageandarchives.wordpress.com

A useful discussion by Anna Kisby, on looking for lesbian history https://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/tra43813

Advice from the National Archives, Kew, London, on searching for LGBTQ history https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/gay-lesbian-history/

This catalogue is part of a project into LGBT+ language and archives, done under the auspices of PiNC, Pride in North Cumbria, and with the support of the Heritage Lottery fund.