Legends 14: Scared Straight (ad-free) (Patreon)

Love has always been a sort of the type of pain and heartbreak that leaves a mark after death, even when those romances don’t quite fit the expectations of the world around them.

Narrated and produced by Aaron Mahnke, with writing by Harry Marks and research by Cassandra de Alba.

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Further Reading:

1. Bryan, Nicola. “Halloween: The ghosts that reside in Wales' spooky castles.” BBC News. October 31, 2022. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-63404537
2. Byrne, Conor. “19 June 1312: the Death of Piers Gaveston.” Conor Byrne Historian. June 21, 2014. http://conorbyrnex.blogspot.com/2014/06/19-june-1312-death-of-piers-gaveston.html
3. Cavendish, Richard. “Piers Gaveston Executed.” History Today. June 6, 2012. https://www.historytoday.com/archive/piers-gaveston-executed
4. Coyle, Eugene. “The Irish Ladies of Llangollen: ‘the two most celebrated virgins in Europe.’ History Ireland 23(6). November/December 2015, pp. 18-20.
5. “The Death of Oscar Wilde.” Squaducation. Accessed January 23, 2023. https://www.squaducation.com/blog/death-oscar-wilde
6. Dickey, Colin. Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places (Penguin, 2016).
7. Durant, David N. Where Queen Elizabeth Slept and What the Butler Saw: A Treasury of Historical Terms from the Sixteenth Century to the Present (St. Martin’s, 1998).
8. “Edward II.” Encyclopedia Britannica. December 23, 2022. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edward-II-king-of-England
9. “Edward III.” Encyclopedia Britannica. December 23, 2022. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edward-III-king-of-England
10. Etheridge, Mark. “Ladies of Llangollen Teapot.” LGBTQ Cymru. April 16, 2022. https://lgbtqcymru.swansea.ac.uk/2022/04/16/ladies-of-llangollen-teapot/
11. Flantzer, Susan. “Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall, Favorite of Edward II, King of England.” January 11, 2021. https://www.unofficialroyalty.com/piers-gaveston-1st-earl-of-cornwall-favorite-of-edward-ii-king-of-england/
12. Garbus, Rachel, and Amanda Archimbault. “These Are The 18th-Century Gothic Welsh Lesbians You’ve Been Waiting For.” Wussy. December 5, 2022. https://www.wussymag.com/all/these-are-the-18th-century-gothic-welsh-lesbians-youve-been-waiting-for
13. Gordon, Mary Louisa. Chase of the Wild Goose (Arno Press, 1975 [1936]).
14. Hamilton, J.S. “Menage a Roi: Edward II and Piers Gaveston.” History Today. June 6, 1999. https://www.historytoday.com/archive/menage-roi-edward-ii-and-piers-gaveston
15. Hamilton, Jeffrey. The Plantagenets: History of a Dynasty (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010).
16. Hanks, Michele. Haunted Heritage: The Cultural Politics of Ghost Tourism, Populism, and the Past (Taylor & Francis, 2016).
17. Hieber, Leanna Renee, and Andrea Janes. A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America’s Ghosts (Citadel Press, 2022).
18. Jessome, Bill. Maritime Mysteries: And the Ghosts Who Surround Us (Nimbus Publishing, 2014).
19. Keller, Phyllis. “George Sylvester Viereck: The Psychology of a German-American Militant.” The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2(1). Summer 1971, pp. 59-108.
20. “The Ladies of Llangollen.” The British Museum. Accessed January 20, 2023. https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/desire-love-and-identity/ladies-llangollen
21. Lister, Kate. “King Edward II and one of the most debated menages a trois in British royal history.” i News. February 26, 2019. https://inews.co.uk/opinion/comment/king-edward-ii-and-one-of-the-most-the-most-debated-menages-a-trois-in-british-royal-history-262927
22. Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen (Penguin, 1973).
23. Moore, Lisa L. Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel (Duke University Press, 1997).
24. “Most Haunted Place to Visit in Halifax.” To Do Canada. October 9, 2020. https://www.todocanada.ca/most-haunted-places-to-visit-in-halifax/
25. Palmer, Daryl W. “Edward IV's Secret Familiarities and the Politics of Proximity in Elizabethan History Plays.” ELH 61(2). Summer 1994, pp. 279-315.
26. Reynolds, James. Ghosts in American Houses (Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1955).
27. Reynolds, Nicole. “The Ladies of Llangollen and the Symbolic Capital of the ‘Cottage Ornée.’” The Eighteenth Century 51(1/2). Spring/Summer 2010, pp. 211-227.
28. Robinson, Phil. “Paranormal investigators report ghostly goings-on at Llangollen house.” The Leader. March 22, 2010. https://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/15929474.paranormal-investigators-report-ghostly-goings-on-at-llangollen-house/
29. Rolle, Elisa. “Mary Louisa Gordon.” Queer Places. Accessed January 20, 2023. http://www.elisarolle.com/queerplaces/klmno/Mary%20Louisa%20Gordon.html
30. Seeney, Michael. “Oscar Beyond the Grave.” The Wildean 25. July 2004, pp. 59-66.
31. Smith, Hester Travers. Oscar Wilde from Purgatory (T. Werner Laurie, 1924).
32. Stokes, John. Oscar Wilde: Myths, Miracles and Imitations (Cambridge University Press, 1996).
33. Summers, Ken. Queer Hauntings: True Tales of Gay and Lesbian Ghosts (Lethe Press, 2009).
34. Wills, Matthew. “Who Were the Ladies of Llangollen?” JSTOR Daily. April 10, 2020. https://daily.jstor.org/who-were-the-ladies-of-llangollen/
35. Wood, Julia. “The Resurrection of Oscar Wilde.” City Connect. March 20, 2019. http://www.city-connect.org/the-resurrection-of-oscar-wilde/