a Bunny bunny!

[kindkit]

The world doesn't really need a story in which Bunny Manders, shattered and penniless after (spoiler!) (skip) Raffles' death and his own serious injury during the Second Boer War,, comes home and meets George Ives. And Ives introduces him to the Order of Chaeronea as well as having a brief but affectionate affair with him, and persuades Bunny to write about Raffles as both emotional therapy and a form of covert homophile propaganda.

Does it?

Comments

[brewsternorth]

IDK, sounds like the premise for a historically as well as emotionally interesting fic.

[kindkit]

Well, I've started it. Time will tell if I finish . . .

[sebastienne]

...I think this is EXACTLY what the world needs, actually.

[kindkit]

*grins* The vast majority of my fic ideas come to nothing, but we'll see.

[oursin]

Yes! Yes! George Ives for the win!

[kindkit]

Heh. And now I'm thinking "Oh god, the research I'd need to do! The books I'd have such trouble getting because I am far from any good libraries!"

(Speaking of which, do you have thoughts on Matt Cook's London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885-1915? I'm wondering if it's worth the effort to acquire it through Interlibrary Loan.)

I'm almost tempted to go to Austin, Texas (it's only a 14-hour drive!) and try to look at the Ives papers. But as I have no university affiliation and no good reason for needing them, I think this would be unsuccessful.

[oursin]

Matt Cook is a passionate Ives fan - he's also got a couple of articles in journals about him, I will try and chase these up - and that book is pretty good. There's also something about Ives in John Stokes, Oscar Wilde, Myths, Miracles and Imitations. Joy Dixon has also been working on him and the Order but don't know if she's published anything yet.

Ives' diaries are maddening to read - his handwriting changes all over the place even on the same page, and large tracts are really, really boring. And then there are little gems and nuggets.

[oursin]

Matt has also either published or in press
'Families of Choice? George Ives, Queer Lives and the Family', in Gender and History (forthcoming 2010)
and
'Sex Lives and Diary Writing: the Journals of George Ives', in David Amigoni, ed., Life Writing and Victorian Culture (Ashgate, 2006)
He also did the ODNB entry for Ives, which I could email to you as I have access at work, if you're at all interested.

[kindkit]

Thank you so much for all the info! Anything you could e-mail me would be extremely welcome, as I don't have access to any databases anymore.