Cherry Potts, Writer

Author: Cherry Potts

  • The Historical Birthday-Tea Party 9th February

    Amy Lowell February 9, 1874 – May 12, 1925 the embodiment of the new liberated woman, … unlimited faith in her own capability God made me a business woman, and I made myself a poet Towards the end of her short life Amy had  a relationship with Ada Dwyer Russell, and wrote several poems for…

  • Lewisham Library LGBT Lesbian takeover

    We had a great night at Lewisham Library on Thursday. A substantial crowd, a relaxed atmosphere and some great writers. The first of  many events for LGBT History Month, it was a diverse and entertaining evening. V.A Fearon read from her novel The Girl With the Treasure Chest, about gang negotiator Dani, and her first…

  • Lewisham Library taken over by Lesbians…

    Here are some photos from Thursday’s LGBT History Month event at Lewisham Library, featuring me, Kate Foley, V.A. Fearon and V.G. Lee. I really wanted to photograph the lovely audience too, but had too many other things on my mind. But imagine a library stuffed full of women, plus a couple of men, and a…

  • The Historical Birthday-Tea Party 8th February

    Today’s birthday girl is multiple award-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 – October 6, 1979) “one of the most important American poets” of the twentieth century. Elizabeth was great friends with Marianne Moore who mentored her while she was studying at Vassar. Elizabeth  travelled widely, often with female companions, one of whom Marjorie Stevens, she…

  • The Historical Birthday-Tea Party 7th February

    The 7th February is another date I have found no candidate for so here is Mary de la Rivière Manley 1663-1724 Mary was briefly the editor of The Examiner, a Tory paper. She was the first English woman political journalist. She was arrested for her publication The New Atlantis (Secret memoirs and manners of several…

  • LGBT History event Lewisham Library TONIGHT

    Thrilled to be doing so many readings for LGBT History month – you must have noticed I’m keen on history? The first one is tonight, at Lewisham Library 199-201 Lewisham High Street, SE13 6LG 7.45 for 8. Kate Foley (Poet) has arrived from the Netherlands and is even now upstairs practising, after an entertaining evening…

  • The Historical Birthday-Tea Party 6th February

    Queen Anne 6 February 1665 – 1 August 1714 Anne is reknowned for her passionate relationships with women, extraordinarily well documented, largely thanks to her longest lasting passion Sarah Jennings (later Churchill), whokept all the Queen’s letters to her, and wrote an autobiography which is surprisingly (and perhaps naively) frank. (see also Cicely Cornwallis, Elizabeth…

  • The Historical Birthday-Tea Party 5th February

    Today we are blowing up balloons to celebrate Marie Rabutin-Chantal de Sévigné 5 February 1626 – 17 April 1696 Romantic friend of Marie de Lafayette and obsessive writer of letters (mainly to her daughter). Member of Paris intellectual circle, spent a lot of time at Versailles. The heart has no wrinkles When I step into…

  • The Historical Birthday-Tea Party 4th February

    Fourth February and another no show. So off we go back into the seventeenth century nd meet Mary Davys, 1674-1732. Irish/English playwright and novelist, when it was still pretty hard for a woman to get taken seriously. Here is a collection of delicious quotes: Is there such  a thing as Justice in Man? No Faith…

  • The Historical Birthday-Tea Party 3rd February

    February third and the birthday we are celebrating is the amazing Gertrude Stein February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946. One must dare to be happy Gertrude was quite something, an experimental writer, a very out lesbian. One of her books is The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas (Alice was her lover – Hemingway refered to…