ABSTRACT

Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to the Mid-Twentieth Century is a comprehensive and fascinating survey of the key figures in gay and lesbian history from classical times to the mid-twentieth century. Among those included are:
* Classical heroes - Achilles; Aeneas; Ganymede
* Literary giants - Sappho; Christopher Marlowe; Arthur Rimbaud; Oscar Wilde
* Royalty and politicians - Edward II; King James I; Horace Walpole; Michel de Montaigne.
Over the course of some 500 entries, expert contributors provide a complete and vivid picture of gay and lesbian life in the Western world throughout the ages.

letter 1A|32 pages

entry |2 pages

Achilles

entry |2 pages

Acosta, Mercedes de

entry |2 pages

Acton, Harold

entry |2 pages

Addams, Jane

entry |1 pages

Adelswärd-Fersen, Baron Jacques d'

entry |2 pages

Adrian-Nilsson, Gösta

entry |2 pages

Aelred of Rievaulx, St

entry |2 pages

Aeneas

entry |3 pages

Aeschines

entry |2 pages

Agathon (and Pausanias)

entry |2 pages

Aguiar, Asdrúbal António d'

entry |2 pages

Alan of Lille

entry |2 pages

Alcuin

entry |2 pages

Aleramo, Sibilla

entry |1 pages

Aletrino, Arnold

entry |2 pages

Alexander the Great

entry |3 pages

Algarotti, Francesco

entry |2 pages

Alger, Jr, Horatio

entry |2 pages

Andersen, Hans Christian

entry |2 pages

Anderson, Margaret

entry |2 pages

Andrade, Mário de

entry |2 pages

Andræ, Poul (Georg)

entry |2 pages

Anneke, Mathilde Franziska

entry |2 pages

Anselm of Canterbury, St

entry |2 pages

Anthony, Susan Brownell

entry |1 pages

Antinous

entry |2 pages

Aquinas, St Thomas

entry |2 pages

Aristophanes

entry |2 pages

Arondeus, Willem

entry |3 pages

Astell, Mary

entry |2 pages

Atherton, John

entry |1 pages

Auden, W(ystan) H(ugh)

letter 33B|45 pages

entry |2 pages

Bacon, Sir Francis

entry |2 pages

Baden-Powell, Robert

entry |1 pages

Balbi, Giròlamo

entry |3 pages

Bang, Herman

entry |2 pages

Barnes, Djuna

entry |3 pages

Barney, Natalie Clifford

entry |2 pages

Barnfield, Richard

entry |1 pages

Barrie, J(ames) M(atthew)

entry |2 pages

Beach, Sylvia

entry |2 pages

Beaton, Sir Cecil

entry |2 pages

Beauchamp, William Lygon, 7th Earl

entry |2 pages

Beccuti, Francesco

entry |2 pages

Beckford, William

entry |3 pages

Behn, Aphra

entry |1 pages

Benedict, Ruth F.

entry |2 pages

Benson, E(dward) F(rederic)

entry |2 pages

Bentham, Jeremy

entry |2 pages

Berber, Anita

entry |2 pages

Bergerac, Savinien Cyrano de

entry |2 pages

Berni, Francesco

entry |2 pages

Bernstein, Eduard

entry |2 pages

Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne

entry |2 pages

Blank, Klaas

entry |2 pages

Blüher, Hans

entry |1 pages

Boisrobert, François Le Métel de

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Bonfàdio, Jàcopo

entry |2 pages

Bonheur, Marie Rosalie

entry |2 pages

Borgatti, Renata

entry |2 pages

Borghese, Scipione Caffarelli

entry |2 pages

Bosco, St Giovanni

entry |3 pages

Botelho, Abel

entry |3 pages

Botto, António

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Boulton, Ernest, and Park, William Frederick

entry |1 pages

Boye, Karin

entry |2 pages

Bradford, Edwin Emmanuel

entry |2 pages

Brand, Adolf

entry |2 pages

Breker, Arno

entry |1 pages

Brooke, Rupert

entry |2 pages

Brooks, Romaine

entry |2 pages

Bukh, Niels

entry |2 pages

Buonaccorsi, Filippo

entry |2 pages

Burra, Edward

entry |1 pages

Burton, Sir Richard (Francis)

entry |3 pages

Butler, Eleanor (1737–1829), and Ponsonby, Sarah (1755–1831)

entry |2 pages

Butler, Samuel

entry |1 pages

Byron, George Gordon, Lord

letter 78C|38 pages

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Caesar, Julius

entry |2 pages

Cahun, Claude

entry |1 pages

Cambacérès, Jean-Jacques-Régis de

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Caminha, Adolfo

entry |2 pages

Campanella, Tommaso

entry |2 pages

Campiglia, Maddalena

entry |2 pages

Carafa, Carlo

entry |3 pages

Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da

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Carlier, Félix

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Carpenter, Edward

entry |1 pages

Casement, Roger

entry |3 pages

Cather, Willa

entry |1 pages

Catullus

entry |3 pages

Cavafy, Constantine

entry |3 pages

Cellini, Benvenuto

entry |2 pages

Charke, Charlotte

entry |2 pages

Chaucer, Geoffrey

entry |2 pages

Church, John

entry |3 pages

Clap, Margaret

entry |3 pages

Cocteau, Jean

entry |2 pages

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

entry |2 pages

Cooper, Lilian Violet (1861–1947) and Bedford, Mary Josephine (1861–1955)

entry |2 pages

Copland, Aaron

entry |1 pages

Còsmico, Niccolò

entry |1 pages

Couperus, Louis

entry |2 pages

Coward, Sir Noel

entry |2 pages

Cowell, Henry

entry |3 pages

Crane, Hart

entry |2 pages

Crevel, René

entry |2 pages

Cruz, Juana Inés de la

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Cukor, George

entry |2 pages

Cullen, Countee

entry |2 pages

Custine, Astolphe de

entry |1 pages

Czechowicz, Józef

letter 116D|24 pages

entry |2 pages

Damian, St Peter

entry |1 pages

Damon and Pythias

entry |2 pages

Dauthendey, Elisabeth

entry |2 pages

David and Jonathan

entry |2 pages

Day, F(red) Holland

entry |2 pages

De Haan, Jacob Israël

entry |2 pages

Della Casa, Giovanni

entry |2 pages

Demuth, Charles

entry |3 pages

De Pisis, Filippo

entry |2 pages

Deschauffours, Étienne-Benjamin

entry |2 pages

Diaghilev, Serge

entry |2 pages

Dickinson, Emily

entry |2 pages

Dickinson, G(oldsworthy) Lowes

entry |2 pages

Dobell, Sir William

entry |2 pages

Domitian

entry |1 pages

Doolittle, Hilda

entry |3 pages

Doone, Rupert

entry |2 pages

Dorval, Marie

entry |2 pages

Douglas, Lord Alfred (Bruce)

entry |2 pages

Douglas, Norman

entry |2 pages

Druskowitz, Helene von

entry |2 pages

Dumont, Franciscus

entry |2 pages

Duse, Eleonora

letter 140E|17 pages

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Eakins, Thomas

entry |2 pages

Edward II

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Edwards, Albert Augustine

entry |2 pages

Eekhoud, Georges

entry |2 pages

Eisenstein, Sergei (Mikhailovich)

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Elagabalus

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Elbe, Lili

entry |2 pages

Ellis, Havelock

entry |2 pages

Enckell, (Knut) Magnus

entry |1 pages

Endymion

entry |2 pages

Enrique IV de Castilla

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Eon de Beaumont, Chevalier d'

entry |2 pages

Erauso, Catalina de

entry |2 pages

Erté

entry |3 pages

Eulenburg, Philipp zu

entry |2 pages

Evans, Edward De Lacy

entry |1 pages

Exler, Marie Jacobus Johannes

letter 157F|17 pages

entry |2 pages

Falleni, Eugenia

entry |1 pages

Farinacci, Pròspero

entry |2 pages

Farnese, Pier Luigi

entry |3 pages

Ficino, Marsilio

entry |1 pages

Field, Michael

entry |2 pages

Fiévée, Joseph

entry |2 pages

Firbank, Ronald

entry |1 pages

FitzGerald, Edward

entry |2 pages

Flandrin, Hippolyte

entry |2 pages

Foresythe, Reginald

entry |2 pages

Forster, E(dward) M(organ)

entry |1 pages

Fowler, John Beresford

entry |2 pages

François, Joannes Henri

entry |2 pages

Frederick II

entry |3 pages

Freud, Sigmund

entry |2 pages

Friedländer, Benedict

entry |2 pages

Fullerton, Mary Eliza

entry |2 pages

Fuseli, Henry

letter 174G|21 pages

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Ganymede

entry |2 pages

Garbo, Greta

entry |2 pages

Gémito, Vincenzo

entry |3 pages

George, Stefan

entry |1 pages

Gerhard, Karl

entry |2 pages

Ghislandi, Vittore

entry |3 pages

Gide, André

entry |1 pages

Girodet-Trioson, Anne-Louis

entry |2 pages

Glassco, John

entry |2 pages

Gloeden, Baron Wilhelm von

entry |2 pages

Gluck

entry |2 pages

Gogol, Nikolai

entry |1 pages

Goodsir, Agnes Noyes

entry |3 pages

Gorani, Count Giuseppe

entry |2 pages

Gosse, Edmund

entry |1 pages

Grant, Duncan

entry |2 pages

Gray, Eileen

entry |2 pages

Gray, John

entry |2 pages

Grazzini, Anton Francesco

entry |2 pages

Grimké, Angelina Weld

entry |2 pages

Grove, Frederick Philip

entry |1 pages

Guez de Balzac, Jean-Louis

entry |1 pages

Gustav III

letter 195H|27 pages

entry |1 pages

Hadrian

entry |2 pages

Hāfīz

entry |2 pages

Haijby, Kurt

entry |2 pages

Haines, (Charles) William (‘Billy')

entry |2 pages

Hall, Radclyffe

entry |2 pages

Hamilton, Alexander

entry |2 pages

Hansen Fahlberg, Carl (Albert)

entry |1 pages

Harford, Lesbia

entry |2 pages

Harmodius and Aristogiton

entry |2 pages

Hartley, L(eslie) P(oles)

entry |2 pages

Hartley, Marsden

entry |2 pages

Hartnell, Sir Norman

entry |3 pages

Henri III de Valois

entry |1 pages

Herbert, Robert George Wyndham (1831–1905) and Bramston, John

entry |2 pages

Herod Atticus

entry |2 pages

Hilary the Englishman

entry |2 pages

Hiller, Kurt

entry |3 pages

Hirschfeld, Magnus

entry |1 pages

Hitchin, Charles

entry |2 pages

Höch, Hannah

entry |2 pages

Hopkins, Gerard Manley

entry |3 pages

Hössli, Heinrich

entry |1 pages

Houmark (Jens) Christian

entry |2 pages

Housman, A(lfred) E(dward)

entry |1 pages

Howard, Brian (Christian de Claiborne)

entry |2 pages

Hoyos y Vinent, Antonio de

entry |2 pages

Huet, Pierre-Daniel

entry |2 pages

Hunter, Alberta

letter 222I|3 pages

entry |2 pages

Ives, George

entry |2 pages

Iwaszkiewicz, Jarosław

letter 225J|11 pages

entry |2 pages

Jahnn, Hans Henny

entry |2 pages

James I and VI

entry |2 pages

James, Henry

entry |1 pages

Jansson, Eugène

entry |1 pages

Jean II le Bon

entry |2 pages

Jesus

entry |2 pages

Jewett, Sarah Orne

entry |2 pages

João do Rio

entry |1 pages

Jocelyn, Percy

entry |1 pages

Johanson, Klara [K.J.]

entry |2 pages

Jones, Captain Robert

entry |1 pages

Jonsson, Tor

entry |2 pages

Julius II

entry |2 pages

Julius III

letter 236K|16 pages

entry |2 pages

Kains Jackson, Charles (Philip Castle)

entry |1 pages

Käkikoski, Hilda Maria

entry |2 pages

Karsch-Haack, Ferdinand

entry |2 pages

Kejne, Karl-Erik

entry |1 pages

Kertbeny, Károly Mária

entry |2 pages

Keynes, John Maynard

entry |2 pages

Kleist, Heinrich von

entry |3 pages

Kobylians'ka, Ol'ha

entry |1 pages

Kok, Martin

entry |3 pages

Krafft-Ebing, Richard von

entry |3 pages

Kristina

entry |1 pages

Krupp, Friedrich

entry |2 pages

Kupffer, Elisár von

entry |3 pages

Kuzmin, Mikhail (Alekseevich)

letter 252L|31 pages

entry |2 pages

Labouchere, Henry (Du Pre)

entry |2 pages

Lagerlöf, Selma

entry |2 pages

Larsen, Nella

entry |2 pages

Last, Joseph C. F.

entry |2 pages

Latini, Brunetto

entry |2 pages

Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert)

entry |2 pages

Lawrence, T(homas) E(dward)

entry |1 pages

Leadbeater, Charles Webster

entry |3 pages

Lechoń, Jan

entry |2 pages

Leduc, Violette

entry |2 pages

Lee, Vernon

entry |1 pages

Lempicka, Tamara de

entry |2 pages

Leo X

entry |3 pages

Leonardo da Vinci

entry |3 pages

Leopardi, Giàcomo

entry |2 pages

Leyendecker, J(oseph) C(hristian)

entry |2 pages

Lifar, Serge

entry |2 pages

Linck, Catharina Margaretha

entry |2 pages

Lister, Anne

entry |3 pages

Lorca, Federico García

entry |2 pages

Lorrain, Jean

entry |2 pages

Lot

entry |2 pages

Loti, Pierre

entry |2 pages

Louis XVIII

entry |2 pages

Louÿs, Pierre-Félix

entry |1 pages

Lowell, Amy

entry |2 pages

Ludwig II

entry |2 pages

Lully, Jean-Baptiste

entry |2 pages

Lynes, George Platt

letter 283M|39 pages

entry |2 pages

McAlmon, Robert

entry |2 pages

Macdonald, Sir Hector Archibald

entry |2 pages

Macedo, Francisco Ferraz de

entry |2 pages

McKay, Claude

entry |2 pages

Mackay, John Henry

entry |2 pages

Mackenzie, Sir Edward (Montague) Compton

entry |2 pages

Maecenas, Gaius

entry |2 pages

Magnus Eriksson

entry |2 pages

Malmberg, Aino Emma Wilhelmiina

entry |1 pages

Mammen, Jeanne

entry |2 pages

Mann, Erika

entry |3 pages

Mann, Klaus

entry |3 pages

Mann, Thomas

entry |1 pages

Marbod of Rennes

entry |1 pages

Marées, Hans von

entry |2 pages

Margherita d'Austria

entry |3 pages

Marlowe, Christopher

entry |1 pages

Martial

entry |2 pages

Martin du Gard, Roger

entry |2 pages

Massimi (or Massimo), Pacifico

entry |1 pages

Mathebula, Nongoloza

entry |3 pages

Mayne, Xavier

entry |1 pages

Mead, Margaret

entry |2 pages

Medici, Ferdinando II de'

entry |2 pages

Medici, Giovanni Gastone (Gian Gastone) de'

entry |2 pages

Meleager

entry |2 pages

Melville, Herman

entry |1 pages

Messel, Oliver

entry |2 pages

Mew, Charlotte Mary

entry |3 pages

Michelangelo (Buonarroti)

entry |3 pages

Mieli, Aldo

entry |3 pages

Mistral, Gabriela

entry |2 pages

Molina, Miguel de

entry |2 pages

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de

entry |2 pages

Montesquiou-Fezensac, Count Robert de

entry |2 pages

Montherlant, Henry de

entry |1 pages

Moonlite, Captain

entry |2 pages

Muret, Marc-Antoine

letter 322N|11 pages

entry |1 pages

Nehemiah

entry |2 pages

Nero

entry |3 pages

Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of

entry |2 pages

Newman, John Henry

entry |1 pages

Nichols, Beverley

entry |2 pages

Nicolson, Sir Harold (George)

entry |2 pages

Nietzsche, Friedrich

entry |3 pages

Nijinsky, Vaslav

entry |1 pages

Novello, Ivor

entry |2 pages

Novo, Salvador

entry |2 pages

Nugent, (Richard) Bruce

letter 333O|4 pages

entry |1 pages

Ohlfsen, Dora

entry |2 pages

Ottesen-Jensen, Elise

entry |2 pages

Ovid

entry |2 pages

Owen, Wilfred

letter 337P|25 pages

entry |2 pages

Pandoni, Giannantonio de'

entry |2 pages

Parnok, Sophia Yakovlevna

entry |2 pages

Pater, Walter (Horatio)

entry |2 pages

Paul, St

entry |3 pages

Pessoa, Fernando

entry |1 pages

Petersen, Clemens

entry |2 pages

Petronius Arbiter

entry |3 pages

Philippe, Duc d'Orléans

entry |2 pages

Philippe IV le Bel

entry |2 pages

Philips, Katherine

entry |2 pages

Pico, Giovanni

entry |3 pages

Platen, August Graf von

entry |2 pages

Plato

entry |1 pages

Plomer, William

entry |2 pages

Pomponio-Leto, Giulio

entry |2 pages

Pontormo, Jacopo Carucci da

entry |3 pages

Porter, Cole

entry |1 pages

Porter, William

entry |2 pages

Powell (Brown), Evelyn (1893–unknown) and Parkinson, Mary (c.1880–unknown)

entry |2 pages

Prados, Emilio

entry |2 pages

Primavera, Giovan Leonardo

entry |2 pages

Proust, Marcel

entry |2 pages

Puttkamer, Marie Madeleine von

letter 362R|25 pages

entry |2 pages

Rabelais, François

entry |2 pages

Raffalovich, Marc-André

entry |2 pages

Rapinett, Guglielmo

entry |1 pages

Rasmussen, (Niels Carl) Gustav (Magnus)

entry |2 pages

‘Raucourt'

entry |2 pages

Redl, Alfred Victor

entry |2 pages

Reich, Wilhelm

entry |2 pages

Reid, Forrest

entry |2 pages

Reinhard, Joachim

entry |2 pages

Rhodes, Cecil

entry |2 pages

Ries, Leopold Abraham

entry |2 pages

Rimbaud, Arthur

entry |3 pages

Rocco, Antonio

entry |1 pages

Roditi, Edouard

entry |2 pages

Roellig, Ruth Margarete

entry |3 pages

Röhm, Ernst

entry |2 pages

Rolfe, Frederick William

entry |1 pages

Römer, Lucien Sophie Albert Marie von

entry |2 pages

Roosevelt, Eleanor

entry |2 pages

Rosai, Ottone

entry |2 pages

Rosenmüller, Johann

entry |2 pages

Rovsing, (Ludvig) Leif (Sadi)

entry |3 pages

Rozanov, Vasily Vasil'evich

entry |1 pages

Ruth and Naomi

letter 387S|45 pages

entry |2 pages

Sá-Carneiro, Mário de

entry |2 pages

Sachs, Maurice

entry |2 pages

Sackville-West, Vita

entry |2 pages

Sade, Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de

entry |1 pages

Saint-Pavin, Denis Sanguin de

entry |3 pages

Sappho of Lesbos

entry |2 pages

Sargent, John Singer

entry |1 pages

Sassoon, Siegfried (Louvain)

entry |2 pages

Schoondermark, Jacobus

entry |2 pages

Schopenhauer, Arthur

entry |2 pages

Schorer, Squire Jacob Anton

entry |2 pages

Schouten, Hubertus Johannes

entry |2 pages

Schwarzenbach, Annemarie

entry |2 pages

Scott, Sarah

entry |2 pages

Sebastian, St

entry |1 pages

Seneca

entry |2 pages

Serge and Bacchus, SS

entry |2 pages

Settembrini, Luigi

entry |1 pages

Seymour, George Francis Alexander, Earl of Yarmouth, 7th Marquess of Hertford

entry |2 pages

Sgricci, Tommaso

entry |3 pages

Shakespeare, William

entry |1 pages

Sitwell, Osbert

entry |2 pages

Sixtus IV

entry |2 pages

Smyth, Dame Ethel

entry |3 pages

Socrates

entry |2 pages

Södergran, Edith Irene

entry |1 pages

Sodoma, Il

entry |2 pages

Solomon, Simeon

entry |2 pages

Solon

entry |3 pages

Solovieva, Poliksena Sergeevna

entry |2 pages

Somerset, Lord Arthur

entry |2 pages

Spender, Sir Stephen (Harold)

entry |2 pages

Stanislaw August II

entry |2 pages

Stanley, Sir Henry Morton

entry |3 pages

Stein, Gertrude

entry |2 pages

Stiller, Mauritz

entry |2 pages

Stoddard, Charles Warren

entry |2 pages

Strachey, Lytton

entry |2 pages

Straton of Sardis

entry |2 pages

Strayhorn, Billy

entry |2 pages

Strindberg, August

entry |2 pages

Stuart, Henry

entry |1 pages

Suetonius

entry |2 pages

Suffren de Saint-Tropez, Pierre-André

entry |2 pages

Symonds, John Addington

entry |2 pages

Szymanowski, Karol

letter 432T|19 pages

entry |1 pages

Tallemant des Réaux, Gédéon

entry |2 pages

Tardieu, Auguste-Ambroise

entry |3 pages

Tasso, Torquato

entry |1 pages

Taylor, Bayard

entry |2 pages

Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich

entry |2 pages

Tchelitchev, Pavel

entry |2 pages

Tennyson, Alfred

entry |1 pages

Thalbitzer, Sophus

entry |3 pages

Theocritus

entry |1 pages

Theognis

entry |3 pages

Thomson, Virgil

entry |1 pages

Thorsell, Eric

entry |2 pages

Thurman, Wallace

entry |2 pages

Tiberius

entry |2 pages

Tilden, William Taten

entry |2 pages

Toklas, Alice B(abette)

entry |1 pages

Trefusis, Violet

entry |3 pages

Tsvetaeva, Marina Ivanovna

entry |2 pages

Tuke, Henry Scott

entry |2 pages

Turing, Alan Mathison

letter 451U|4 pages

entry |2 pages

Ulrichs, Karl Heinrich

entry |3 pages

Umberto II

letter 455V|17 pages

entry |2 pages

Valentino, Rudolph

entry |1 pages

Van Vechten, Carl

entry |3 pages

Varchi, Benedetto

entry |2 pages

Vaughan, Charles John

entry |1 pages

Vendôme, Louis-Joseph

entry |3 pages

Verlaine, Paul

entry |2 pages

Viau, Théophile de

entry |2 pages

Villamediana, Juan de Tassis, Count of

entry |2 pages

Villaurrutia, Xavier

entry |1 pages

Villette, Marquis Charles-Michel de

entry |2 pages

Villon, François

entry |2 pages

Virgil

entry |2 pages

Vivien, Renée

entry |2 pages

Vizzani, Catterina

entry |2 pages

Vladislas III of Varna

entry |1 pages

Vock, Anna

entry |2 pages

Voltaire

letter 472W|24 pages

entry |2 pages

Walpole, Horace (Horatio) William, 4th Earl of Orford

entry |1 pages

Waters, Ethel

entry |2 pages

Waugh, Evelyn (Arthur St John)

entry |1 pages

Wedekind, Frank

entry |2 pages

Weininger, Otto

entry |2 pages

Weirauch, Anna Elisabet

entry |2 pages

Weiwha

entry |2 pages

Welch, Denton

entry |1 pages

Welles, (Benjamin) Sumner

entry |3 pages

Westermarck, Edward

entry |2 pages

Wetterhoff, Adolf Fredrik

entry |1 pages

Whale, James

entry |3 pages

Whitman, Walt

entry |2 pages

Wikner, Carl Pontus

entry |3 pages

Wilde, Oscar

entry |2 pages

William III

entry |2 pages

Winckelmann, Johann Joachim

entry |2 pages

Winsloe, Christa

entry |2 pages

Witkiewicz, Stanisław Ignacy

entry |2 pages

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

entry |1 pages

Wolfe, Elsie de, later Lady Mendl

entry |2 pages

Woolf, Virginia

letter 496X|2 pages

entry |2 pages

Xenophon

letter 498Y|2 pages

entry |2 pages

Yourcenar, Marguerite

letter 500Z|3 pages

entry |2 pages

Zahle, Vilhelmine

entry |2 pages

Zahrtmann, (Peter Henrik) Kristian