Lord Erskinefiorenza_aOctober 3 2015, 10:47:13 UTC
I doubt Eton, or which ever school Erskine attended (I can't remember if we ever get a name for him? Just his title?), would have had much impact. It wouldn't have been considered defining of sexuality, simply a response to lack of opportunity, and would still have been seen as justly illegal, if interpreted as homosexuality.
I think Lord E would either be of the 'flog them until they learn better' brigade or the 'I don't care, so long as they don't frighten the horses' school (moral panic being a badge of the socially inferior).
I don't think the threat to Bodie's cottage wouldn't mean much, he obviously loves the place and it would hurt to lose it, but the cottage is tied to the job, not the other way around. He'd only lose it, as you rightly point out, if he lost his job. So the threat to his job is the greater problem, since if it was just the cottage, he and Doyle are earning enough to live elsewhere.
If he lost his job though, that would be a double whammy, he'd be hard pushed to find alternative employment (after all, there's only one estate he can manage, and a lot of the other jobs would be estate dependant, his sexuality would bar him from those too) and Doyle would be completely absorbed in his work, so would he notice how badly Bodie was doing? Particularly as Bodie is likely to hide it from him, so Doyle wouldn't feel guilty for being so happily employed himself?
I wouldn't think Bodie would take to being a kept man (although we know Doyle implies he, himself, would/has in canon :0)). It's possible the dig might find work for Bodie, the larger that got, the more in need of site management it would be, but it's still on Erskine's land, he'd have sufficient influence to pressure the University into getting rid of Doyle too. They might both end up out on their ear.
RE: Lord ErskinejessebeeOctober 3 2015, 12:14:12 UTC
I think Lord E would either be of the 'flog them until they learn better' brigade or the 'I don't care, so long as they don't frighten the horses' school (moral panic being a badge of the socially inferior).
I think we don't know enough about his Lordship to tell, one way or the other, really; Bodie never seems to be worried about Erskine's reaction too much, his worry is for his parents. I'm going with heliophile_oxon's theory *g*.
I doubt Eton, or which ever school Erskine attended (I can't remember if we ever get a name for him? Just his title?), would have had much impact. It wouldn't have been considered defining of sexuality, simply a response to lack of opportunity, and would still have been seen as justly illegal, if interpreted as homosexuality.
I think Lord E would either be of the 'flog them until they learn better' brigade or the 'I don't care, so long as they don't frighten the horses' school (moral panic being a badge of the socially inferior).
I don't think the threat to Bodie's cottage wouldn't mean much, he obviously loves the place and it would hurt to lose it, but the cottage is tied to the job, not the other way around. He'd only lose it, as you rightly point out, if he lost his job. So the threat to his job is the greater problem, since if it was just the cottage, he and Doyle are earning enough to live elsewhere.
If he lost his job though, that would be a double whammy, he'd be hard pushed to find alternative employment (after all, there's only one estate he can manage, and a lot of the other jobs would be estate dependant, his sexuality would bar him from those too) and Doyle would be completely absorbed in his work, so would he notice how badly Bodie was doing? Particularly as Bodie is likely to hide it from him, so Doyle wouldn't feel guilty for being so happily employed himself?
I wouldn't think Bodie would take to being a kept man (although we know Doyle implies he, himself, would/has in canon :0)). It's possible the dig might find work for Bodie, the larger that got, the more in need of site management it would be, but it's still on Erskine's land, he'd have sufficient influence to pressure the University into getting rid of Doyle too. They might both end up out on their ear.
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I think we don't know enough about his Lordship to tell, one way or the other, really; Bodie never seems to be worried about Erskine's reaction too much, his worry is for his parents. I'm going with
heliophile_oxon's theory *g*.
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Quite right, it's all speculation :0)
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