Looking For Research Clues

[woffproff.livejournal.com]

What-ho, lovely people!

I'm been working on some things for my Sherlockian scion, with the hopes of producing something worthy to submit to the Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes, to try to gain admission to that august group. I've written a small piece for my scion on the interesting comparisons between Holmes and Jeeves, and I wondered if anyone has ever uncovered any literary suggestion (in stories, pastiches, scholarship, general ramblings, whatever!) that Holmes could have been Jeeves' father. What (if anything) do we know about Jeeves' parents---he seems to have uncles and aunts by the score, but I can't come up with anything off the top of my brain about his folks---except for the one line where he says his mother thought he was intelligent.

Anyway, I'm thinking about playing around with the idea, and was just curious if it had been done before, and if so, where.

Many many thanks ahead of time!

Woff

Comments

[derien.livejournal.com]

Re the suggestion by several people that Holmes was unlikely to have had children because he was gay... Here's a bizarre suggestion that my eor just came up with: "Watson was a doctor. Perhaps he did some doctoring." Artificial insemination would be perhaps unlikely to have been thought of at the time, but I'm constantly amazed at how much earlier many things WERE actually done than I ever imagined.

Also, supposedly there's an old tradition in the north of England, and perhaps other places, of guys asking another guy who they admired to impregnate their wife so that they can have those admirable genes in their own family. (Of course the only place I can think of to offer as a reference for this is "The Flying Yorkshireman" by Eric Knight, but I do think I've heard mention of it elsewhere as well.)

The biggest stumbling block is that Jeeves is not of the upper classes. Jem's Bird came up with the excuse that he had to be hidden by giving him a false name and background, but, although I enjoyed her story, I really don't quite buy it, given that he has so many relatives who are all of the same class, and you don't pay off THAT many people to stick to a story.

So... yeah.