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Bunny and Raffles, good lord.
Oct. 9th, 2009 08:30 pmOn the recommendation of various lovely people on Twitter, I started reading "The Amateur Cracksman" today. This is a collection of Victorian-era stories about A.J. Raffles, gentleman thief, and his unabashedly adoring sidekick, Bunny. Yes, Bunny. It's a public school nickname.
They were written by E. W. Hornung, who I believe was Arthur Conan Doyle's brother-in-law, and probably the biggest concurrent-era ACD fanboy I've ever heard of. The Raffles and Bunny stories I've read so far are absolutely freaking delightful, and are almost mind-blowingly slashy. Hornung did base Raffles on George Ives, early gay rights activist, but I think it's debated whether Hornung was aware of that part of Ives's career. At any rate, holy moly on a cracker, the slashiness.
( In which I babble and make inevitable comparisons to Holmes )
They were written by E. W. Hornung, who I believe was Arthur Conan Doyle's brother-in-law, and probably the biggest concurrent-era ACD fanboy I've ever heard of. The Raffles and Bunny stories I've read so far are absolutely freaking delightful, and are almost mind-blowingly slashy. Hornung did base Raffles on George Ives, early gay rights activist, but I think it's debated whether Hornung was aware of that part of Ives's career. At any rate, holy moly on a cracker, the slashiness.
( In which I babble and make inevitable comparisons to Holmes )
