Amorous and proud : Gwen John
Black sequins and seaweed : Stevie Smith
Vicarage passions : Barbara Pym
Feeding on light : Simone Weil
Holding the baby : Clementine Churchill
Echoes : Ottoline Morrell
Flag bearer : Dora Russell
La Strepponi : Giuseppina Verdi
Famishment : Stosslova, Abba
Sheltering : Olive Schreiner
Scallywag & Co. : Blavatsky and Besant
Soppists and sapphists : Brazil and Blyton
Down to work : prostitutes
Innocent, unstoppable : Marie Stopes
Eadie or Eddie? : Patrick White
Satan laughed : Isak Dinesen
Almost queenly : Rebecca West
Great space and tundra : Slater, Jamison, Millett, France, Ferguson
Conspicuous gallantry : Margaret Oliphant
Her own straitjacket : Alice James
An ice-cold wreath : Katherine Mansfield.
