Goddesses or 49 ½ shades of charcoal
What does her noble behaviour say about me?
Shakespeare’s Rosalind was a possibility, but for the future. Her cross-dressing was an activity that would require serious research, and my itch needed scratching sooner rather than later.
My eye spots Mademoiselle de Maupin, Gautier’s most successful novel. This is a woman to copy. She appears, dressed as a man. She causes her friend Rosette and Rosette’s lover to fall in love with her. It is a complicated triangle, involving homosexual and heterosexual affairs. Rosette falls in love with de Maupin, as a man, but is really entering a lesbian affair, while Rosette’s lover, d’Albert, believes he is entering a gay relationship, but it is actually he
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