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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
At least one of the book's other characters seems to have picked up on Georgie's gender-bending characteristics: Colonel Boacher. "Surely a fine woman, though lame, wouldn't look at a needle-woman—well, leave it at that."
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Male needlework seems to have been not unknown in the upper crust then - Boy Dougdale embroidering in Love In A Cold Climate - but definitely not approved by the Col Blimps