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starfishstarTHIS MEETING OF LIKE MINDS
Fandoms: Mary Russell series by Laurie R. King, Lord Peter Wimsey series by Dorothy L. Sayers
Summary: Two women, both alumnae of the same esteemed university, meet one day at the Bodleian Library.
Characters: Mary Russell, Harriet Vane
Notes: Created as a Holmestice gift forlanguage_escapes. Many thanks to sanguinity for alpha and beta reading this project, and for the Oxford setting. (Shifting this to Oxford was inspired.)
Here the role of Harriet Vane is played by Dorothy L. Sayers herself, and the role of Mary Russell is played by the inimitable Katharine Hepburn...admittedly she's nothing like how Mary Russell is described in the books, in terms of appearance, but there's a certain similarity in attitude and personality that seemed right!
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Two women, scholars, close in age, both alumnae of the same esteemed university. Both are wives of great and famous detectives; both have worked hard and long to ensure they are also their own women, respected in their fields and rich in intellectual life, not merely the shadows of men.
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Fandoms: Mary Russell series by Laurie R. King, Lord Peter Wimsey series by Dorothy L. Sayers
Summary: Two women, both alumnae of the same esteemed university, meet one day at the Bodleian Library.
Characters: Mary Russell, Harriet Vane
Notes: Created as a Holmestice gift for
language_escapes. Many thanks to sanguinity for alpha and beta reading this project, and for the Oxford setting. (Shifting this to Oxford was inspired.)Here the role of Harriet Vane is played by Dorothy L. Sayers herself, and the role of Mary Russell is played by the inimitable Katharine Hepburn...admittedly she's nothing like how Mary Russell is described in the books, in terms of appearance, but there's a certain similarity in attitude and personality that seemed right!
View this work on AO3, or here below:
Two women, scholars, close in age, both alumnae of the same esteemed university. Both are wives of great and famous detectives; both have worked hard and long to ensure they are also their own women, respected in their fields and rich in intellectual life, not merely the shadows of men.
They have not yet met, though they have heard a great deal of one another.
Both travel to Oxford, now and then, to pursue their respective research. And one day, at the Bodleian Library, the author of detective novels is seated at a table piled high with books, when the scholar of theology passes by on her way to her usual reading room.
Their eyes meet. A spark of recognition catches. They fall into conversation, these two women with their different interests and their similar passions. They sit and talk, there at their table piled with books, and before they know it, Oxford’s afternoon has shaded into night.
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