Title: Lucy Westenra
Date: 2007
Medium: Digital
Dimensions: 11 x 7.5
Additional info: Lucy is a paragon of virtue and innocence, qualities that draw not one but three suitors to her. Lucy differs from Mina Harker in one single but crucial aspect: she is sexualized. Lucy’s physical beauty captivates each of her wooers, and she displays a comfort or playfulness about her desirability that Mina never feels. In an early letter to Mina, Lucy laments, “Why can’t they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her, and save all this trouble?” Although she chastises herself for this “heresy,” some have interpreted this statement as suggesting that she has desires that cannot be met -- polyandry perhaps among them.

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