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Robin (she/he-ella/él) @merryrobin.bsky.social · Sep 3

The Ladies of Llangollen, Eleanor Butler (1739–1829) and Sarah Ponsonby (1755–1831), were two upper-class Irish women who lived together as a couple.
The pair moved to a Gothic house in Llangollen, North Wales, in 1780 after leaving Ireland to escape the social pressures of conventional marriages.

The Rt. Honble. Lady Eleanor Butler & Miss Ponsonby 'The Ladies of Llangollen' Illustration by James Henry Lynch
The two women are depicted in formal black dresses, wearing top hats, and walking together with a small dog by their side. They are set against a natural landscape backdrop with rocky terrain and possibly a distant view of an abbey or ruins.

Sarah Ponsonby (left)and Lady Eleanor Butler, recluses known as the Ladies of Llangollen, seated in their library. Lithograph by R.J. Lane, ca. 1832
This is a black-and-white lithograph or engraving showing the Ladies of Llangollen, Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, wearing masculine outfits and seated together in an ornate room. A sleepy cat is also sitting at the table. They are surrounded by various objects and books, indicating a scholarly or intellectual setting. The room's interior is richly detailed, emphasizing their domestic life.

Susan Murray Tait: Ladies of Llangollen 1819
This is a watercolor painting that depicts the Ladies of Llangollen walking together. Both women are wearing dark cloaks with short, white wild hairstyles, giving them a cool androgynous appearance. They are shown on a pathway, emphasizing their close companionship as they walk side by side.

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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 18h

There's a 1936 novel about them: Chase of the Wild Goose by Mary Gordon. There was a recent edition by @lurideditions.bsky.social
www.lurideditions.com/shop/p/chase...

Chase of the Wild Goose — Lurid Editions

Chase of the Wild Goose is the forgotten queer novel of the 1930s – a joyful corrective to the misery of The Well of Loneliness, and amiable companion to Woolf’s time-travelling Orlando.

www.lurideditions.com

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Lurid Editions @lurideditions.bsky.social · 4d

In honour of Banned Books Week

We are celebrating The Milkman’s on His Way by David Rees First published by the Gay Men’s Press in 1982, this ground breaking young adult novel would go on to have a pivotal role in the passing of Section 28. Never banned outright, the book was
suppressed & censored.

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Lurid Editions @lurideditions.bsky.social · 15d

We love it 😻

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Llinos Cathryn Thomas @llincathryn.bsky.social · 15d

This sounds amazing!

Lurid Editions @lurideditions.bsky.social · 16d

To celebrate #SapphicSeptember A Jingle Jangle Song by Mariana Villa-Gilbert is available to pre-order from the Lurid Editions website. www.lurideditions.com/shop/p/a-jin... “To read A Jingle-Jangle Song is to discover a missing link in the tradition of the 20th century lesbian novel”—Leigh Wilson

Book cover and text that says pre orders available now publishing January 2026

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Lurid Editions @lurideditions.bsky.social · 16d

To celebrate #SapphicSeptember A Jingle Jangle Song by Mariana Villa-Gilbert is available to pre-order from the Lurid Editions website. www.lurideditions.com/shop/p/a-jin... “To read A Jingle-Jangle Song is to discover a missing link in the tradition of the 20th century lesbian novel”—Leigh Wilson

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Llinos Cathryn Thomas @llincathryn.bsky.social · 18d

Today's #SapphicSeptember rec:

Chase of the Wild Goose, by Mary Gordon and published by @lurideditions.bsky.social

Originally published in 1936, this is a gloriously romantic, melodramatic and weird retelling of the lives of the Ladies of Llangollen.

The cover of Chase of the Wild Goose, by Mary Gordon. The cover is a vibrant pink. A quote from Sarah Waters says: "A fascinating piece of queer literary history."

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Lurid Editions @lurideditions.bsky.social · Aug 18

Review of In Transit by Hailey Maxwell, to be published in the New Internationalist #bookreview #brigidbrophy

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Lurid Editions @lurideditions.bsky.social · Aug 18

Lurid borlotti beans and Brigid Brophy

In Transit meets a borlotti bean harvest!

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Lurid Editions @lurideditions.bsky.social · Aug 18

Lurid borlotti beans and Brigid Brophy

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · Jul 3

An age of misgovernment; the novel of ideas; Chaucer’s ambitions for English; reconsidering Brigid Brophy; Samuel Beckett’s resourcefulness – and much more.

This week’s TLS is out now: www.the-tls.com/issues/curr...

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Kate Levey @brophylevey.bsky.social · Jul 3

Not to be missed: two reissued Brigid Brophy novels discussed in this week's TLS @thetls.bsk.social.

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Lurid Editions @lurideditions.bsky.social · May 31

Cappuccino core #intransit

During the scudding back of the spoon across the opaque liquid I realised I could no longer remember which sex I was, text over lays a copy of In Transit, a cappuccino and a brioche

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Turnaround Books @turnarounduk.bsky.social · May 9

Jet-lagged, gender-shifting, and gloriously unclassifiable—In Transit follows Pat through airports, opera, revolution & reinvention. A 1969 anti-novel of sexual amnesia, identity flux & feminist undergrounds. Brophy was way ahead of us. #QueerLit
@lurideditions.bsky.social

buff.ly/miFJRpe

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Kate Levey @brophylevey.bsky.social · May 1

Yay! Today! Brigid Brophy!

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Sophie Heywood (she/her) @sophieheywood.bsky.social · May 1

Love the @lurideditions.bsky.social reprints project. Looking forward to reading this.

Lurid Editions @lurideditions.bsky.social · May 1

Happy publication day to In Transit, Brigid Brophy's heroi-cyclic masterpiece! Huge thanks to @brophylevey.bsky.social for believing in the project to publish a new edition of the novel, and for writing a brilliant foreword. We're so proud to be publishing this mind/sex bending novel. #booksky

Copy of In Transit published by Lurid editions

Text says Happy publication day In Transit Brigid Brophy's heroi-cyclic masterpiece

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Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social · May 1

Read Brigid Brophy and follow Kate Levey

Lurid Editions @lurideditions.bsky.social · May 1

Happy publication day to In Transit, Brigid Brophy's heroi-cyclic masterpiece! Huge thanks to @brophylevey.bsky.social for believing in the project to publish a new edition of the novel, and for writing a brilliant foreword. We're so proud to be publishing this mind/sex bending novel. #booksky

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Lurid Editions @lurideditions.bsky.social · May 1

Happy publication day to In Transit, Brigid Brophy's heroi-cyclic masterpiece! Huge thanks to @brophylevey.bsky.social for believing in the project to publish a new edition of the novel, and for writing a brilliant foreword. We're so proud to be publishing this mind/sex bending novel. #booksky

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Lurid Editions @lurideditions.bsky.social · Apr 18

For Bristol folks! In Transit launch, Thu 8 May, East Bristol Books. 7pm start!

#bookevents #booksky #bristolbookevents #bristol #brigidbrophy

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James Reath @jamesreath.bsky.social · Apr 16

One of the most promiscuous, brilliant, + endlessly fascinating novels of the 60s In Transit is being republished 🎉 Here “the empirical world shivers and becomes more malleable, more erotic, more wild. Bends into itself and returns,” as Helen Marten says of her own Aristotelian disintegrations...

Lurid Editions @lurideditions.bsky.social · Apr 16

Just leaving this here, as they say.

#brigidbrophy #intransit #booksky

'In Transit is about a series of disintegrations of rulebooks, including the sexual
stereotypes, ending with the question of whether Aristotelian logic might disintegrate,
whether we are mistaken in thinking that a thing cannot be both X and
not-X' Brigid Brophy

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Lurid Editions @lurideditions.bsky.social · Apr 16

Just leaving this here, as they say.

#brigidbrophy #intransit #booksky

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Kate Levey @brophylevey.bsky.social · Mar 30

Mother's Day 2025. Brigid Brophy didn't cook, sew dust or garden. Instead she wrote *the* witty niche-cult sexual adventure novel of the 20th century, In Transit. New edition, top right, coming soon.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · Apr 8

GO GO GO!!! BB's In Transit is an airport-tastic operatic no-gender?-don't-panic good time & you should scoop up this edition.

Lurid Editions @lurideditions.bsky.social · Apr 8

Join us Thu 8 May 7pm at East Bristol Books to celebrate the publication of Brigid Brophy's In Transit!

Publisher D-M Withers will be in conversation with literary agent Becky Brown.

Tickets here:

www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/eas...

#brigidbrophy #intransit #booksky #bookevents #bristol

Lurid Editions: On Brigid Brophy's *In Transit* at East Bristol Books

'It’s easy to forget things when you go to the airport. Including your sex.' Publisher D-M Withers and Heritage Literary Agent Becky Brown discuss the republication of Brigid Brophy's In Transit. Bec...

www.headfirstbristol.co.uk

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Lurid Editions @lurideditions.bsky.social · Apr 8

Thanks for your support So x

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Lurid Editions @lurideditions.bsky.social · Apr 8

Join us Thu 8 May 7pm at East Bristol Books to celebrate the publication of Brigid Brophy's In Transit!

Publisher D-M Withers will be in conversation with literary agent Becky Brown.

Tickets here:

www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/eas...

#brigidbrophy #intransit #booksky #bookevents #bristol

Lurid Editions: On Brigid Brophy's *In Transit* at East Bristol Books

'It’s easy to forget things when you go to the airport. Including your sex.' Publisher D-M Withers and Heritage Literary Agent Becky Brown discuss the republication of Brigid Brophy's In Transit. Bec...

www.headfirstbristol.co.uk

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