Edith and I are Maenads now with a “longing for the hills & ecstasy.” Let Frances expect to see me at the midland station with cone-pointed thyrsos & fawn-skin. Tell him I shall walk to Lindelhurst in this array. He need not think of hiding my originality in a fly!
- Katherine Harris Bradley to the family of Frances Brooks in a letter dated 1882
Tagged: dionysos, heroes, may you never thirst
