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Sunday Jul 01, 2018
Sunday Jul 01, 2018
Today's episode is on Horace Walpole, 18th century man of letters and writer of the world's first gothic novel. This episode features a number of firsts for Queer As Fact, including our first possible asexual person, and the first Queer As Fact Historical Goth-Off!
(Image: Portrait of Horace Walpole by Pierre Subleyras, via Wikimedia Commons)
7 years ago
Hi I love your podcast. Potentially helpful but entirely unnecessary comment about Horace's racist letter : during the 1700s much of India was ruled by the Mughal Empire which had heavy Persian cultural influences so that is probably why he used the terms fairly interchangeably.