LuRKing on the Web
|September 27, 2014|
The Laurie R. King web site has dozens of corners and byways that, if you haven’t gone exploring there in a while, you may not have seen.
For example: If Watson were a Woman—not by Laurie King, but by guest author Fred Erisman, who explores an assertion made in 1941 by Rex Stout, that Watson was in fact a woman. Yes, before Lucy Liu was even born.
As Professor Erisman says:
The Watsonian voice, with all its assumptions and elisions, is so much a part of the Holmes stories that it raises a compelling question: what if Watson were someone else, and, more particularly, what if Watson were a woman?
“If Watson Were a Woman,” nestled in the LRK site, here.
Posted in Just muttering
Yes, the idea that Watson was a woman is by no means a new one. I believe that there was even an idea that Holmes and (female) Watson were lovers, although I don’t whether it was Rex Stout who proposed it.
I very much doubt if a Female Watson would have served with the British Army in Afghanistan during the unpleasantness there in the 19th Century … although today it would have been totally feasible.
TBFO
I doubt if a Female Watson would have served with the British Army in Afghanistan during the unpleasantness there in the 19th Century … although in the 21st Century, it would be most likely.
TBFO