“I found more than 30 anonymous poems. So many of them immediately struck me as being by women, about female themes, & written in a female voice. And I certainly wasn’t expecting to find lesbian love poetry”
—Ashley Douglas explores Marie Matland’s 16th-century Scottish sapphic verse
https://thecoldmagazine.co.uk/theatre-literature/meet-the-scottish-lesbian-poet/
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