HomeAuthor: William Burton

Author: William Burton

William Burton

July-August 2020
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King Henri III and His Mignons

Alexandre Édouard de Valois before becoming King of France as Henri III. Portrait by François Clouet.

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Enter a World of Fascination

Beardsley always denied allegations of homosexuality, but when Wilde was arrested and charged with sodomy, he was said to be carrying a copy of The Yellow Book. Beardsley found his work under increasing scrutiny as people looked for evidence of homosexuality. Indeed many people thought they found it in his drawings, such as The Examination of the Herald …

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The Fall of Aubrey Beardsley

Aubrey Beardsley was an artist whose name comes up frequently in many of the books written about Oscar Wilde. The 1890s were, after all, later dubbed the Beardsley Period. The facts of Beardsley’s life are not nearly as well-known as those of Wilde’s, but their fates were inextricably intertwined.

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H. P. Lovecraft’s Odd Couples

In Lovecraft’s stories, sailors, lonely academics, and sorcerers—all of whom can be read as gay—lurk on the outskirts of civilization.
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