# Most Influential Lesbian/Bisexual Women Couple - Pre 20th Century **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 12, 2015, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-influential-lesbian-bisexual-women-couple-pre-20th-century/719863 "2015-05-12T15:32:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2015, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-influential-lesbian-bisexual-women-couple-pre-20th-century/719863/1 "2015-05-12T15:32:39Z")
Here’s a question: in history, who was the most influential lesbian couple? Influential any way you like - on politics, on culture, on science. Only caveat, to make the topic challenging: has to be pre-20th century … that is, before lesbianism/bisexuality in the West became widely acknowledged. Of course, this leaves open what consitutes a “lesbian couple” … as lesbianism wasn’t often acknowledged as even existing. My pick - Sarah Churchill and Queen Anne of England. Both were, of course, married to men. However, it is pretty clear that Anne had a hardcore, and not entirely platonic, crush on Sarah. They were hugely influential of course - it was through Sarah’s influence on Anne that her husband, the future Duke of Marlborough, became allied commander in the War of the Spanish Succession. Their falling-out was just as epic … ---
**Author:** ![mtomm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@mtomm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mtomm)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2015, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-influential-lesbian-bisexual-women-couple-pre-20th-century/719863/2 "2015-05-12T19:04:28Z")
Well, dang can’t do Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok with the time restriction.