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beholder_mod (beholder_mod) wrote in hp_beholder,
@ 2011-05-06 14:44:00

Entry tags:

bathilda bagshot, beholder_2011, femslash, fic, griselda marchbanks, griselda/bathilda, rating:r

FIC: "The Ladies of Godric's Hollow" for featherxquill
Recipient: featherxquill
Author: tetleythesecond
Title: The Ladies of Godric's Hollow
Rating: R
Pairings: Griselda Marchbanks/Bathilda Bagshot, implied background Albus Dumbledore/Gellert Grindelwald, with appearances of a canon-character's semi-original aunt.
Word Count: 17,000
Warnings/Content Information (Highlight to View): *None.*
Summary: Griselda Marchbanks and Bathilda Bagshot are two women with a dream and sound principles. However, when Bathilda's nephew pays them a visit in the summer of 1899, the question arises how to stay true to them.
Author's Notes: This comes with fervent gratitude to my fantastic betas, Kelly Chambliss and Pale Moonlite, who worked miracles on this tale. Dear featherxquill, I had the hardest time choosing between your wonderful prompts -- I hope you like what I did with this.

One literal and one paraphrased quote are from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, page 287 of the British hardcover edition.

"The Ladies of Godric's Hollow"

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tetleythesecond
2011-05-30 07:50 am UTC (link)

I think I must have grown an inch from this review alone. Thank you so much! I'm glad the glimpses of the early women's movement and women's ideas about education came across as believable. I do love my 19th-century women, reform dress and all.

And I'm so happy about your comment on the layers of invisibility. That's exactly it! Women's contributions so often fell under the visibility threshold, either because they didn't create facts that were considered "historical", or because they themselves chose to remain behind the curtains for their own reasons. And even if they did take "noteworthy" action, they ended up being written out of history books -- either by being subsequently declared irrelevant or unfit for public attention (not a little of that by 19th-century men).

Lily? Who were the two?
I thought that Whitby may have taken the Potters and Remus and Sirius for a bit of a "Hair"-type living arrangement.

Thank you again, for the compliments and for the hand kiss!

*reciprocates*

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