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Jul. 8th, 2011 05:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kindkitThe 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?
Does it?
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Date: 2011-07-09 11:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-10 07:17 pm (UTC)(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.
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Date: 2011-07-10 08:00 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2011-07-11 08:21 pm (UTC)'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.
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Date: 2011-07-11 11:21 pm (UTC)