I did that too! I had read the "Watson was a woman" essay on the H/W "Sacrilege!" site, ages, ago, and then was reading the Wolfe novels, and only after reading several of the books did I realize "omg wait SAME GUY."
Actually, I was just commenting about that essay to someone the other day, and how brilliant it is, because the logic basically goes like this:
1) here is some typical Holmes/Watson interaction
2) OMG SO MARRIED. SERIOUSLY UNDENIABLY MARRIED.
3) Therefore, Watson was a woman!
.... and of course since 1941 we've streamlined the process so that we can leave out step 3.
What gets me about it is that he wrote that essay *after* he had written several Wolfe/Archie novels (and the early ones really are the most exuberantly slashy and "married.") *g*
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I did that too! I had read the "Watson was a woman" essay on the H/W "Sacrilege!" site, ages, ago, and then was reading the Wolfe novels, and only after reading several of the books did I realize "omg wait SAME GUY."
Actually, I was just commenting about that essay to someone the other day, and how brilliant it is, because the logic basically goes like this:
1) here is some typical Holmes/Watson interaction
2) OMG SO MARRIED. SERIOUSLY UNDENIABLY MARRIED.
3) Therefore, Watson was a woman!
.... and of course since 1941 we've streamlined the process so that we can leave out step 3.
What gets me about it is that he wrote that essay *after* he had written several Wolfe/Archie novels (and the early ones really are the most exuberantly slashy and "married.") *g*