Fiction Adaption (History on Charlotte Mews 2)

   While looking more into Charlotte Mews' life, I found some interesting information about her that could be relevant to her personal life influencing her poetry. Many people during that era commented that Charlotte dressed in masculine clothing, a style of clothing which what was referred to at the time as that of a 'dandy' (Picture at bottom shows what a dandy dressed like in Victorian London). Some people in the poetry community said that she dressed this way as she was chastely lesbian. It has never been proved that she was a lesbian, which would be due to the fact that in that time it would not be accepted as it is in modern day society. It has not been proved that she was a lesbian but many people commented on her being one, which heightens the possibility of it being true.
    If it is true that Mews was a lesbian, it would explain the sexual connotations that are within 'The Cenotaph'. She could have used her poetry as an outlet for her lesbian feelings, it could have been her safe place to express these feelings instead off bottling them up inside. I have looked at other poems of hers and they also have the same connotations in them such as 'In Nunhead Cemetery' where she talks about social alienation and criticises the Christian faith. And in other poems she spoke through the male characters perspective within her poems, which she does in 'The Farmers bride'.