Question
The diarist Anne Lister claimed two Irish women dubbed the Ladies of Llangollen (“lang-GOW-luhn”) were these people. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name these people. Lister has been dubbed the first modern one of these people, the term for whom refers to the island on which the poet Sappho wrote poems expressing her love for women.
ANSWER: lesbians [prompt on gay people; prompt on homosexuals; prompt on queer people; prompt on LGBTQ+ people]
[10m] After fleeing marriages in Ireland, the Ladies of Llangollen came to Wales, where they were visited by this queen. This queen convinced her husband George III to provide the Ladies with a royal pension to sustain them.
ANSWER: Charlotte [or Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz]
[10h] Mary Gordon imagined a conversation between her and the Ladies of Llangollen in a book titled Chase of [one of these animals]. Patrick Sarsfield led a group of officers named for these animals after the Williamite War.
ANSWER: wild geese [accept wild goose; accept Chase of the Wild Goose; prompt on goose or geese with “what adjective was used to describe them?”]
<Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford, European History>
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