*amused*

The day that Professor S says, "This isn't lesbian Jane Austen" in lecture is the day that femslash_today links three femslash Jane Austen fanfics. *snorts*

(Emma Woodhouse/Jane Fairfax doesn't work for me, just because Emma--if she had any feelings for Jane--won't realized it unless some other woman proposes to love Jane, which would send Emma into a titter of self-realization (but, hey, I admit I was a little confused when Emma started checking out the women around her with some rather flowery descriptions... too many echoes of Nella Larsen's Passing... only unlike L, Prof. S didn't confirm my gaydar pinging); Fanny Price/Mary Crawford is just so damn amusing and actually not so entirely unbelievable if you want to carry out her emulation of Edmund Bertram so far--but I still stand by preferring Henry Crawford over Edmund and remain miffed that Austen put that little teaser about Henry at the end--it could have worked out!; but Catherine Morland/Eleanor Tilney? Not unless the lesbians were appearing in Radcliffe's gothic novels and unduly influencing Catherine's mind!)