yuletide | 2022 Yuletide Promo Post

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Share what makes your Yuletide fandoms the shiniest and why you love them. A big part of Yuletide is how small our fandoms can be, and this is a good way to make sure other people know what gems there are out there!

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Title:
Jill

Media:
Novel

Approx length:
About 300 pages in paperback form

Where to find it:
Available on Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/53489

What is it, in summary?:
A Victorian adventure novel about a woman called Jill who runs away from home to escape from her gold-digging stepmother. She ultimately finds employment as a lady's maid to the proud and emotionally repressed Kitty, an old crush of hers, and the narrative is pretty explicit (by Victorian standards) about how fascinating and attractive Jill finds Kitty, and how she'd lay her heart at Kitty's feet if Kitty showed the slightest sign of reciprocating her feelings.
The novel as a whole is great fun, very fast-paced and a little bit silly. Jill's various escapades make for entertaining reading, but the real heart of the story, for me, lies in the Jill/Kitty relationship and its sense of unfulfilled pining and missed connection.

What do you love about it?:
It contains many elements that I find extremely iddy: emotionally repressed characters, a mistress/maid relationship, identity issues, discussion of social class, intense queer longing, unfulfilled romance…

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?:
Jill/Kitty fix-it fics xD

Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence):
Very period-typical attitudes to working class and non-British people. Dillwyn, to her credit, does try to comment upon the difficulties faced by servants and to present different cultures in a positive light, but there's still very much a sense that white, upper class, Anglo-Saxon Protestants are inherently superior to everyone else.

I second this! It's a brilliantly fun book with loads of femslash potential. :D

There's another potential f/f ship between Jill and Helena, the Sister at a hospital where Jill stays, whose religious philosophy and solemn devotion to her duty make a strong impression on Jill. Plans are not finally decided, but I may request fix-it/relationship development for Jill and Sister Helena as well as Jill and Kitty.

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