Jul 21, 2025
I'm rereading The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and I got to the part where Gilbert is visiting Lawrence when he's sick and talking about his beautiful delicate hands and I HOWLED with laughter bc I remembered your post and thought of you
IT'S SUCH A FUNNY PART OF THE BOOK
It's just like when he resisted kissing our heroine's hands because it'd have been "suicidal madness" ;____; <33 they don't write yearning like the Victorians anymore
#i know cultural norms were different in how ppl related to one another but sometimes a victorian character just IS incidentally a little bi#like. everyone in david copperfield for example#often ppl use this to speculate on authors' sexualities but the fact that charles dickens was (from all i can tell) a pretty typical#straight dude is perplexing#david copperfield is the disaster bi of the 1840s#gilbert markham is incidentally bi. i feel bad that he gets a crush on his wife's brother#that's awk#buddyhollyscurls#happy bronte girl summer btw#dianswered
