I’m not lazy – but all my brains cells are otherwise occupied

From my calendar – because my brain is full of the work the AGENT wants done on the book.  But this bit of info is quite intriguing.  You’ll see.

What do Oscar Wilde and Ernest Hemingway have in common?  Not much, beyond the shared history of cross-dressing, of course.  Both men spent much of their childhood wearing girl’s clothes at the behest of their mothers.  Wilde’s mum, Lady Jane Wilde, was an eccentric poet who liked to outfit herself in outlandish costumes, each one topped with a bejeweled, feathered headdress.  Apparently starved for a dress-up companion, she felt she had missed out by not giving birth to a girl.  To compensate, she simply pretended little Oscar was a girl, hiding him behind a series of frilly Victorian frocks.  But before you jump to conclusions, there’s no link between such behaviour and homosexuality – although it would explain much about Hemingway’s macho posturing.  Did someone say overcompensating?