Ashley Douglas
@ashleydouglas.bsky.social
✍️ 🌈 ✨📚 Writing the biography of Marie Maitland, Scotland's 16th-century Sappho (forthcoming 2026)
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Also a relatively new discovery:
@ashdouglasscot uncovered the earliest known example of Sapphic verse in Europe since, well, Sappho. In Scotland. Welcome Marie Maitland to our cultural heritage. Ashley is now writing a book about this landmark poet in LGBTQ history. /6
@ashdouglasscot uncovered the earliest known example of Sapphic verse in Europe since, well, Sappho. In Scotland. Welcome Marie Maitland to our cultural heritage. Ashley is now writing a book about this landmark poet in LGBTQ history. /6
December 4, 2024 at 9:19 AM
Also a relatively new discovery:
@ashdouglasscot uncovered the earliest known example of Sapphic verse in Europe since, well, Sappho. In Scotland. Welcome Marie Maitland to our cultural heritage. Ashley is now writing a book about this landmark poet in LGBTQ history. /6
@ashdouglasscot uncovered the earliest known example of Sapphic verse in Europe since, well, Sappho. In Scotland. Welcome Marie Maitland to our cultural heritage. Ashley is now writing a book about this landmark poet in LGBTQ history. /6