Hello,
I haven't actually read any work from LMM, but read the complete summary of Blue Castle and something caught my attention enough for me to do some digging.
There is a character called Cissy Gay, which is a pretty explicit name so I just stared for a second when I stumbled upon it, and then found out she was a close friend of Valency, even sharing a bedroom, and that she was a bit of a society reject because she had a child out of wedlock? (Perdon me if this is inaccurate, as I said I haven't read the actual book..) This name, plus the idea of being a social pariah and intimacy with another woman made me wonder if LMM wasn't trying to send a whole another message here, and if she was, then what kind of message, and your post really makes sense to me because of it.
