Some of this stuff sounds scary and I don't have time to check the fic, but am looking forward to John as a Thelwell pony.... (My favorite cartoon: Mother asking smug pony coming back with empty saddle, "What have you done with her THIS time?")
Anyway, ACD's Beyond the City is a definite Yes. Takes place in an Edwardian suburb of London. Two daughters of a widowed father are fascinated when a very assertive lady and her nephew move in next door. (She bashes a cabbie's head repeatedly against the side of his cab to teach him not to be disrespectful to a lady.) They worry when it looks like their father might be attracted to her-- she's just not the right second wife for him. So they decide to become "New Women" themselves to show him what his home life would be like....
ACD did have a sense of humor, pawky though it be, and it's on display here.
He wrote another novel whose title escapes me about a woman doctor. A young male doctor falls for her and, as I recall, she's not only a better doctor than he is, but when he proposes, she turns him down because she's accepting a better position somewhere else.
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Date: 2012-01-13 04:37 am (UTC)Anyway, ACD's Beyond the City is a definite Yes. Takes place in an Edwardian suburb of London. Two daughters of a widowed father are fascinated when a very assertive lady and her nephew move in next door. (She bashes a cabbie's head repeatedly against the side of his cab to teach him not to be disrespectful to a lady.) They worry when it looks like their father might be attracted to her-- she's just not the right second wife for him. So they decide to become "New Women" themselves to show him what his home life would be like....
ACD did have a sense of humor, pawky though it be, and it's on display here.
He wrote another novel whose title escapes me about a woman doctor. A young male doctor falls for her and, as I recall, she's not only a better doctor than he is, but when he proposes, she turns him down because she's accepting a better position somewhere else.