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‘Hayley on his Toilette’: Blake, Hayley and Homophobia

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Blake’s early satire An Island in the Moon ends with a fragment in which two characters plot a visit to ‘Mr Femality’s’: ‘now I think we should do as much good as we can when we are at Mr Femality’s do yo[u] snap & take me up - and I will fall into such a passion 111 hollow and stamp & frighten all the People there & show them what truth is’ (E465).

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Matthews, S. (2010). ‘Hayley on his Toilette’: Blake, Hayley and Homophobia. In: Bruder, H.P., Connolly, T. (eds) Queer Blake. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230277175_16

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