Gender equality? No thanks, we’re Victorians.
Regarding a discussion on inserting fiesty heroines into Holmes fiction that is going on elsewhere;
I can’t imagine what the state of my sanity would have been, had I been born in that time.
I can’t write, or read Victfic. I have to look to the future.
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OMG, this is the sort of conversation, I think, my sister and I have all the time. She insists she’d be a fiesty kick-arse heroine in Victorian times; I tell her she’d probably be locked up or beaten into obedience, that she’d never get away with being herself … and silently be grateful for being born exactly when I was.
I have read some horribly unrealistic profic that doesn’t have a clue about what life was really like at the time for the people they depict, though. There seems to be a delusion with some fantasy and historical writers that life pre-modernity was freer or better – and not harder, frightening, and far more difficult and dangerous for anyone who didn’t subscribe to the proposed ideals set by those in power.
(I’ve only done just a little research into medicine of the period. That alone is scary stuff…)