a-candle-for-sherlock:

mistyzeo:

one-thousand-leaves:

Can anyone direct me to resources that might be helpful for writing Victorian Johnlock.  I find I know much more about women during that time period than men.  I know @weeesi has a bunch of stuff about this that I am going to search through and I know it comes across my dash.  I have just always been more interested in queer women than men.

But, hey, maybe we’ll just have to do victorian femlock then. Where is my victorian femlock? 

First I will try it with the men.  I’ll be searching around and will make a masterpost with anything I find if it would be helpful.  Tagging a few folks who I know write Victorian fics. @a-candle-for-sherlock (who will be joining me on this journey) & @mistyzeo & WHO ELSE?  I know there are others.

Oh GOSH, where did I get the info in my brain about the Victorian era? Shit, okay. A lot of osmosis, but here are my bookmarks that I reference sometimes:

• https://sherlock-holm.es/stories/html/cano.html I start here with the Holmes stories, especially if you want to know specific lines or what people were wearing. Watson is a clothes horse and loves talking about fashion.
• http://www.ignisart.com/camdenhouse/gallery/1-paget.htm Paget illustrations all in one place; another reference for me for clothing and facial hair, and who wore what hats.
• http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/pagets/index.html More Pagets.

GAY HINTING

• http://ship-manifesto.livejournal.com/51192.html This is a ship manifesto from LJ but it has some overviews of the Holmes/Watson friendship timeline, as well as tender things they say to one another.
• http://www.nekosmuse.com/withlovesh/?cat=3 Neko’s Muse does a great series called “Decoding the Subtext” which goes in depth (and a little tongue-in-cheek) into romantic coding in the canon. It can be heavy-handed at times, but is a delight nevertheless.

TIMELINES

• http://www.foodtimeline.org/ What food is available when? Can H & W be eating [insert particular thing] or has it not been invented yet (looking at you, ORANGE JUICE, 1910)? 
• http://webpages.charter.net/lklinger/Chrotabl.htm A proposed timeline of events from H & W to England to the world, by Les Klinger.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_time_and_places_in_cases_of_Sherlock_Holmes Proposed timeline of cases.
• http://thenorwoodbuilder.tumblr.com/post/53996344805/thenorwoodbuilder-so-after-having-tried-my Norwood Builder’s timeline.
• http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/03/sherlock-holmes-a-complete-chronology/ There are a lot of timelines.
• http://www.sherlockpeoria.net/Who_is_Sherlock/SherlockTimeline.html Brad Keefauver’s timeline.

MAPS

• http://www.stutler.cc/other/misc/baker_street.html A possible layout for the Baker Street flat.
• http://taleya.net/lj/221bbakerstreet.gif
• http://www.torontobootmakers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/CH-V36N3-Spring2014.pdf Not a map so much as a lengthy description of the flat from canon clues, starting on page 20.
• http://www.sherlockian.net/graphics/floorplan.jpg Another possible flat floorplan.
• http://mappinglondon.co.uk/2013/victorian-london-in-incredible-detail/
• http://static6.depositphotos.com/1041725/675/v/950/depositphotos_6750170-London-and-its-environs-vintage-engraving.jpg
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1890_Bacon_Traveler’s_Pocket_Map_of_London,_England_-_Geographicus_-_London-bacon-1890.jpg This is a personal favorite of mine.
• http://booth.lse.ac.uk/cgi-bin/do.pl?sub=view_booth_and_barth&args=531000,180400,6,large,5 Charles Booth’s poverty maps; an excellent snapshot of streets and who lived where.

THINGS MENTIONED

• http://www.schoolandholmes.com/canonplaces.html If you want to get weird with people and places already mentioned in the canon.
• http://www.jadedcompass.com/ocular_helmsman/archives/index.htm Unpublished cases mentioned by Watson.
• http://www.schoolandholmes.com/untoldcases.html More untold cases.

VICTORIANA

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansom_cab Hansom cabs
• http://studyinsherlock.livejournal.com/2251.html Mourning practices
• http://www.morbidoutlook.com/fashion/historical/2001_03_victorianmourn.html
• http://www.victoriana.com/VictorianPeriod/mourning.htm
• http://www.crimescene-forensics.com/History_of_Fingerprints.html Fingerprinting and forensics.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_in_the_Victorian_era Theatre (see these are specific to my fics sometimes).

BACK TO FASHION

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF3N6D9hQwk Footage of a lady undressing, 1897. Wow! Underwear! Bums! I think this is supposed to be racy? Why does the maid pour sand on her and then look at the camera? I love it.
• https://www.pinterest.com/odannyboy87/mens-victorian-fashion/ Pinterest has good resources of fashion for men and women, usually from portraits.

HOMOSEXUALITY

• http://www.historyextra.com/article/sex-and-love/victorians%E2%80%99-surprisingly-liberal-attitude-towards-gay-men
• http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/s/sex-and-sexuality-19th-century/
• http://grossindecencythea318bsu.weebly.com/homosexuality-in-the-victorian-era.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_morality
• https://reframingthevictorians.blogspot.com/2013/12/victorian-homosexuality-and-oscar-wilde.html
• https://evolution-institute.org/article/why-there-were-no-homosexuals-in-victorian-england-or-iran-for-that-matter/

Also (this is going to sound totally snooty but) I have a MA in Sherlock Holmes and Victorian feminism now, so a lot of my knowledge comes from actually studying contemporary culture from books, newspapers, pamphlets, etc from the era. I can point you to the Bibliography section of my thesis for a list of those which admittedly are specific to the topic of women and transportation: http://www.mistyzeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Thesis-to-Share.pdf (last 2 pages).

I also draw on the knowledge of friends and fellow writers when it comes to really specific details, so if there’s anything in particular you want to know, get in touch and I’ll see if the Holmes fandom braintrust can help.

xx

Holy shit, this is an amazing list.

Tbh Google and actual Victorian novels are my primary source material, along with Doyle canon, but the inevitable and magnificent Strangers by Graham Robb, The Victorian City by Judith Flanders, What Jane Austen Ate And Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool, Unmentionable by Therese Oneill (for femlock), and How To Be A Victorian by Ruth Goodman are all fantastic resources for details of queer life and daily experience.