The Secret Lesbian Affair under Mary Queen of Scots
About this episode
The episode explores the secret lesbian love poetry of Marie Maitland during the reign of Mary Queen of Scots, featuring guest Ashley Douglas.
16th century Scotland was a hard time to be a woman, far harder if you happened to be a woman who loved women. Yet from this dark time a dazzling lightness has survived - the secret lesbian love poetry of Marie Maitland. Marie's story is groundbreaking, uplifting and heartbreaking and is being shared with the world for the first time by our guest today Ashley Douglas whose new book With My Own Hand will be out on July 16th. Edited by Hannah Feodorov. Produced by Freddy Chick. Sign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week and ad-free podcasts. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe . You can take part in our listener survey here . All music from Epidemic Sounds. Voting is now open for the Listener's Choice Award at this year's Podcast Awards. Click here to place your vote! Thank you! https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/voting Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
People in this episode
Guest: Ashley Douglas
Topics covered
- lesbian history
- Mary Queen of Scots
- 16th century Scotland
- love poetry
- women's history
Keywords
- lesbian affair
- Mary Queen of Scots
- Marie Maitland
- Ashley Douglas
- love poetry
- 16th century
- Scotland
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: History Hit
Books & works: With My Own Hand
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