... of literature and the arts became a guide to an emerging canon of queer 382 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN and GAY STUDIES modernism. Mortimer updated readers on recent French publications by André Gide and Jean Cocteau, the poet Edith Sitwell analyzed how Gertrude Stein’s writ- ing...

... of his own tributes to the infamous sailors’ port: Regatta (1931) and A Day in a Southern Port (1931).54 Cyril W. Beaumont complained that Ashton had reduced Sacheverell Sitwell’s poem, adapted as the libretto for A Day in a Southern Port, to “an orgy of sailors...

...-1920s around Bloomsbury and Edith Sitwell in London, and around avant-garde writers and artists in Paris. With her mentor and lover, Dorothy Todd, then the editor of British Vogue, she helped turn a staid society magazine into a 380 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES...

..., who was thirty years old at the time, at the wedding of Frances Sitwell and Sir Sidney Colvin in 1903. James later spoke of their meeting GLQ 7:2 pp. 335–354 Copyright © 2001 by Duke University Press GLQ 7.2-06 Gunter 4/20/01 6:03 PM Page 336...