Heh, there were so very many biographies of Virginia Woolf that kept insisting she was straight straight straight, despite her nephew (!) detailing a lot of her affairs in that first serious biography. Then the coin flipped and Virginia Woolf was queer queer queer, what do you mean she loved Leonard, he was obviously the reason she killed herself!! and so on.

Renault was so totally I Am Not Like Those Other X in many categories all her life and it explains a lot about her view of Alexander, I think.