She was a mystery, and must have some extraordinary solution. She was the tool of Burleigh, she was the tool of Leicester, she was the fool of Essex she was diseased, she was deformed, she was a man in disguise. They invented the most complicated and astonishing reasons both for her success as a sovereign and for her tortuous matrimonial policy. “It is extraordinarily entertaining,” she told her audience, to watch the historians of the past, for instance, entangling themselves in what they were pleased to call the “problem” of Queen Elizabeth. In 1938, the British crime writer and theologian Dorothy Leigh Sayers addressed a women’s society on the simple question: “Are Women Human?” Adding her voice to the ongoing discourse on the “woman question,” Sayers expressed frustration with the wonder and criticism directed towards those people whose lives divert from the path expected of their gender.
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