19th cent. queer noveleists opo

alex in nyc is yr man here, but he only posts on ilm

If only more people on ile liked to talk about Killing Joke...

Louis Couperus, Dutch novellist, wrote Footsteps of Fate (translated in English)in 1891 abt a triangle relationship between 2 male + 1 female, but in most of his books there's more between the lines oh if you could only read Dutch. He writes beautifully, very baroque.

He hated the cold, damp weather and Calvinist morals of Holland but then most ppl here didn't like him, he was perhaps too decadent for 19th c. bourgouis. So the dandy travelled most of his life, Italy, France, Egypt, Japan. Now he's considered one of the great Dutch novellist of all time and his Complete Works have recently been published. His debut novel Eline Vere (the Dutch Anna Karenina) was already a classic when it was published in 1890.

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Camp detail: When he wrote his historical novel abt Heliogabalus, his wife (who was also his cousin and probably aware of her husbands sidetracks) wrote a prospectus abt homosexuality to accompany the book. Needless to say, it wasn't a bestseller here.

J.K. Huysmans.

I don't know who the Marcel is - Proust's first novel came out in 1913. The Picture of Dorian Gray was 1890, so I'm going for Oscar Wilde.

that leaves Ronald Firbank out, as well, I guess.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon for Lady Audley's Secret, not a queer novel/ist as such, but that doesn't stop anyone in the 'academy' from treating it as one.