Knox admits that prison relationships can be about sex. But mostly, she writes, it’s about human connection. A girl allegedly caught in bed at 13 with her female tennis coach sobbed yesterday as she told how she was forced into having a lesbian affair.

Lyte, of Shirley, West Midlands, denies five charges of unlawful sexual activity with a child. The case at Liverpool crown court continues. Most Read Sappho has since become a symbol of desire between women as much of her surviving poetic verse appears to eulogise romantic female relationships. It is often incredibly intimate in its content, as exemplified in this snippet from Sappho 31: This is common. Contrary to what you might guess, many prison relationships aren’t about sex-just like most relationships outside of prison.”

The fresh-faced Amanda Knox was just 20 when she was infamously charged with the 2007 murder and sexual assault of a female British exchange student Meredith Kercher while studying in Italy. Allan's sculpture Winged Victory does not relate to her sexuality but to her wartime experience. Winged Victory sits above the chapel of the Blind Veterans UK centre (formerly St Dunstan's) in Brighton. In 1974, the artist herselfregistered asblind, meaning her earlier sculpture from 1938 must have gained a new poignance. It was bad enough that the prison institution took ownership of my body―that I was caged and stripsearched on a regular basis and had already been sexually harassed by male guards.” Her mother claims that when she found her daughter in bed with Claire Lyte, 29, they were involved in a sex act. Discussions about lesbian identity in art history before the twentieth century remains a problematic endeavour for art historians, though with the influence and impact of queer theory and promotion of LGBTQ+ histories, we can continue to fill in the gaps of knowledge, providing new perspectives about an artist's life and work along the way.

One said: "I f*****g love you so much. All I want to do is to be with you for the rest of my life. I love you." But you didn't tell anybody, you carried on, didn't you? Why did you lie to the police?" The girl, speaking via a video-link, said: "I was still terrified of what would happen. I wanted to carry on with my tennis. It was always what I wanted to do." Amanda Knox is comforted by her sister, Deanna Knox, in 2011. A stolen kiss from her prison friend ‘Leny’ was a step too far, she says. Picture: AP What follows are examples of sculptors who may have been homosexual and sculptures of renowned, possibly queer, women – some arguably more explicit in their identity than others.The teenager said: "She said if I was to say anything, she'd hurt me and she would stop my tennis completely and tell the academy to get rid of me." Defence lawyer David Mason asked the girl why she had failed to speak out after she was allegedly found in bed at her Merseyside home and even lied to police that it was a "one-off". The relationships inmates establish with each other are treated as nothing more than kinky lies to be ashamed of upon returning to the real world,” she writes. “But they’re not. Amanda Knox says women in her prison sought out each other’s company — and sex — in desperate bids for human connection. Picture: AP Afterwards, she scampered, puppy-like, alongside me as I paced the exercise yard-the next day, and the day after that, and eventually every day.”