5/21/2023 0 Comments Sarah waters handmaiden![]() ![]() To speak to such populations is impossible, of course all we can do is imply, using ourselves as a reference. Here, in Fingersmith (2002), the reader is witness to minute details of quotidian life in the past, details of intimacy that we, as people alive today, assume the population of history might have shared with us. Sarah Waters’ writing is well-aware of the romantic, fantastical effect a thrilling 19th century setting has on its readers: that this era, in fiction, is an otherworldly canvas onto which we can project our current fantasies. Wet tissue, a rubbing finger, the promise of a sexual awakening–one that is explicitly homosexual in today’s terms. Her eyelids fluttered, and she caught my eye.Īn erotic encounter: A Victorian handmaiden rubs at her mistress’ sharp tooth with a thimble. My hand grew wet, from the damp of her breaths. Her throat lifted and sank, as she swallowed. Maud stood very still, her pink lips parted, her face put back, her eyes at first closed then open and gazing at me, her cheek with a flush upon it. ![]()
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