Professor X: "a natural, pure and sound passion," 1897

James Mills Pierce: Militant Homosexual of Harvard

text from GAH

plus additional ending establishing Pierce as author.

Bibliography

Kennedy, Hubert. Six Articles on James Mills Peirce. Concord, CA: Peremptory Publications, 2003. On line. See especially: The Case for James Mills Peirce (1978); Towards a Biography of James Mills Peirce (1979); James Mills Peirce, Fierce & Quixotic Ally (1982).

Pencak, William, 1951-. "The Peirce Brothers, John Addington Symonds, Horatio Brown, and the Boundaries of Defending Homosexuality in Late- Nineteenth-Century Anglo-America." Journal of the History of Sexuality - Volume 15, Number 2, May 2007, pp. 153-168. University of Texas Press. William Pencak, Pennsylvania State University. Excerpt: On 11 April 1895 The Nation published one of its many anonymous reviews of recent scholarly books, Horatio Brown's biography of John Addington Symonds. Both the biography and the review are unusual. The biography, consisting to a large extent of lengthy passages from Symonds's letters and journals, says little about the great books on Renaissance art responsible for Symonds's reputation as one of the world's great art historians. Brown deals almost exclusively with Symonds's struggle to overcome inner demons and physical illnesses, find peace and satisfaction, and do his important work. The review in turn only evaluates in passing the quality of the book itself, near its conclusion. It centers instead on the reviewer's fascination with Symonds's life and discovery of Walt Whitman as the transforming influence that unleashed his genius and permitted him a modicum of happiness. Why this matters for the history of sexuality is that the author of the review can be...