Jeff Weeks, Coming Out: Homosexual Politics in Britain from the C19th to the Present (1977) Timothy D'Arch Smith, Love in Earnest: Some Notes on the Lives and Writings of English 'Uranian' Poets from 1889 to 1930 (1970) - and, should you ever come across a copy of this small press collectors' item, check out his intro to Elysium Press's lovely edition of The Quorum: A Magazine of Friendship
More recent: Charles Upchurch, Before Wilde: Sex Between Men in Britain's Age of Reform (2009) - the period is the earlier part of the century, but it's all excellent stuff Sheila Rowbotham, Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love (2008) Sean Brady, Masculinity and Male Homosexuality in Britain, 1861-1913 (2005) Morris Kaplan, Sodom on the Thames: Sex, Love, and Scandal in Wilde Times (2005) Harry Oosterhuis, Stepchildren of Nature: Psychiatry and the Making of Sexual Identity (based on detailed research in the Krafft-Ebing papers) (2000) Angus McLaren's Sexual Blackmail: A Modern History (2002) has some material on gay blackmail cases.
The best study of Havelock Ellis, to my mind, is Chris Nottingham's The Pursuit of Serenity: Havelock Ellis and the New Politics (1999) (Grosskurth's bio is terribly Point Thah U Hav Misst It - Ellis was not aiming to be Freud, srsly) - but it's more about wider late C19th progressive circles. I am slightly hesitant to recommend Sexual Inversion: A Critical Edition (2007) on account of history with the editor - he does do solid research, but tends towards a rather odd theoretical framework.
I don't think there's anything in the way of biography on George Ives out there - but I know Matt Cook has an article or two about him in the pipeline.
You all know already know about Rictor Norton's massive website on gay history, right? I refer here especially to the section on John Addington Symonds.
And probably not entirely finally: has anyone else ever read Chris Hunt's novel Street Lavender (1990), about a late Victorian rentboy? As I recollect it seemed fairly well-researched. I have an idea there may have been a sequel, but don't have the details.
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Jeff Weeks, Coming Out: Homosexual Politics in Britain from the C19th to the Present (1977)
Timothy D'Arch Smith, Love in Earnest: Some Notes on the Lives and Writings of English 'Uranian' Poets from 1889 to 1930 (1970) - and, should you ever come across a copy of this small press collectors' item, check out his intro to Elysium Press's lovely edition of The Quorum: A Magazine of Friendship
More recent:
Charles Upchurch, Before Wilde: Sex Between Men in Britain's Age of Reform (2009) - the period is the earlier part of the century, but it's all excellent stuff
Sheila Rowbotham, Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love (2008)
Sean Brady, Masculinity and Male Homosexuality in Britain, 1861-1913 (2005)
Morris Kaplan, Sodom on the Thames: Sex, Love, and Scandal in Wilde Times (2005)
Harry Oosterhuis, Stepchildren of Nature: Psychiatry and the Making of Sexual Identity (based on detailed research in the Krafft-Ebing papers) (2000)
Angus McLaren's Sexual Blackmail: A Modern History (2002) has some material on gay blackmail cases.
The best study of Havelock Ellis, to my mind, is Chris Nottingham's The Pursuit of Serenity: Havelock Ellis and the New Politics (1999) (Grosskurth's bio is terribly Point Thah U Hav Misst It - Ellis was not aiming to be Freud, srsly) - but it's more about wider late C19th progressive circles. I am slightly hesitant to recommend Sexual Inversion: A Critical Edition (2007) on account of history with the editor - he does do solid research, but tends towards a rather odd theoretical framework.
I don't think there's anything in the way of biography on George Ives out there - but I know Matt Cook has an article or two about him in the pipeline.
You all know already know about Rictor Norton's massive website on gay history, right? I refer here especially to the section on John Addington Symonds.
And probably not entirely finally: has anyone else ever read Chris Hunt's novel Street Lavender (1990), about a late Victorian rentboy? As I recollect it seemed fairly well-researched. I have an idea there may have been a sequel, but don't have the details.