Hi! It's more than okay to friend me :) I have to admit to looking through your journal at your CS posts a couple of times - and that "obscure and british comment fest" you have looks fascinating (I've bookmarked a couple of prompts for when I have time/inspiration to write them!).
That's an interesting idea that Elinor might have been inadvertently basing friendships on RL lesbian relationships... It is possible. I wonder how much she drew on real people for her characters?
they're very free with the endearments, and the whole school knows Nancy will be upset if Kathie is ill I think Nancy tends to give endearments to everyone, but she does it with Kathie constantly, and Kathie's are usually directed at Nancy. Interestingly enough, I was reading "Coming of Age", and it's Biddy who's Kathie's closest friend. I wonder which book starts the "Miss Ferrars and Miss Wilmot, greatest of friends"?
Nell Wilson/Constance Stewart (if they'd stop sharing beds and running down corridors hand in hand, maybe not, but they do) *snort* Quite! Not to mention living together in Nell's "ducky little cottage" for a time until the school re-opened in "Exile" (followed, unfortunately, by Con spending the whole of "Goes To It" in a bad temper and finally getting married - presumably without Nell being there, since she'd already been sent on to England).
You're right about Rosalie, too, it really does read rather as a romance.
I understand what you mean about not being sure how much you ship Nell and Hilda. They're obviously close, but you can argue just how close that is. Nell is easier to read as being in love somehow - not just the history with Con Stewart, but she's the one who makes that beautiful speech in "Gay From China", and goes to stay with Hilda at her cousin's (the Randolphs, I suppose?) over half-term in "Mystery", and is always visiting her in the Swiss years. We don't seem to see Hilda's feelings (about anything!) so much - she's more reserved, even with the readers. For example, we see from Nell's own thoughts that she misses Hilda in "Oberland", but it's Rosalie Dene who 'tells' us that Hilda misses Nell in "Shocks". (Something I recently noticed on re-reading: they're the only ones described as missing each other, though most of the Oberland staff went there from St Briavel's). Personally, I usually do ship them, but I can see the other perspective too - and enjoy those fics!
There are - for all the protests that they don't do that sort of thing - a lot of crushes various girls seem to have on each other. Jo really does seem to have a thing about how pretty Gillian Linton is, which is quite funny. There really are! Jack Lambert with Len, of course, and Francie Wilford's violent jealousy of Ruey over Margot, everyone worships Wanda and Marie's beauty...
I've friended you, and I'm always happy to talk about the CS too :)
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That's an interesting idea that Elinor might have been inadvertently basing friendships on RL lesbian relationships... It is possible. I wonder how much she drew on real people for her characters?
they're very free with the endearments, and the whole school knows Nancy will be upset if Kathie is ill
I think Nancy tends to give endearments to everyone, but she does it with Kathie constantly, and Kathie's are usually directed at Nancy. Interestingly enough, I was reading "Coming of Age", and it's Biddy who's Kathie's closest friend. I wonder which book starts the "Miss Ferrars and Miss Wilmot, greatest of friends"?
Nell Wilson/Constance Stewart (if they'd stop sharing beds and running down corridors hand in hand, maybe not, but they do)
*snort* Quite! Not to mention living together in Nell's "ducky little cottage" for a time until the school re-opened in "Exile" (followed, unfortunately, by Con spending the whole of "Goes To It" in a bad temper and finally getting married - presumably without Nell being there, since she'd already been sent on to England).
You're right about Rosalie, too, it really does read rather as a romance.
I understand what you mean about not being sure how much you ship Nell and Hilda. They're obviously close, but you can argue just how close that is. Nell is easier to read as being in love somehow - not just the history with Con Stewart, but she's the one who makes that beautiful speech in "Gay From China", and goes to stay with Hilda at her cousin's (the Randolphs, I suppose?) over half-term in "Mystery", and is always visiting her in the Swiss years. We don't seem to see Hilda's feelings (about anything!) so much - she's more reserved, even with the readers. For example, we see from Nell's own thoughts that she misses Hilda in "Oberland", but it's Rosalie Dene who 'tells' us that Hilda misses Nell in "Shocks". (Something I recently noticed on re-reading: they're the only ones described as missing each other, though most of the Oberland staff went there from St Briavel's). Personally, I usually do ship them, but I can see the other perspective too - and enjoy those fics!
There are - for all the protests that they don't do that sort of thing - a lot of crushes various girls seem to have on each other. Jo really does seem to have a thing about how pretty Gillian Linton is, which is quite funny.
There really are! Jack Lambert with Len, of course, and Francie Wilford's violent jealousy of Ruey over Margot, everyone worships Wanda and Marie's beauty...
I've friended you, and I'm always happy to talk about the CS too :)