if you want to learn more about Stella Boulton and trans women in the Victorian Era, read FANNY & STELLA by Neil McKenna!
it’s a tiny detail in the text that Holmes hires a theater troupe (with the King’s money) to stage a dramatic scene that gets him brought into Irene’s house, but I love the implications
Irene in boymode, based on an illustration by the Sidney Paget
“I slept at baker street that night” 🥺🥺🥺awww reunions
Slowly but surely I’m coming to the realisation that I’m going to have to read Sherlock Holmes. This was brilliant, properly brilliant 💖