While All the World is at Mistress Beaufort's Ball

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Bodie/Doyle Fanfiction
Title: While All the World is at Mistress Beaufort's Ball
Author(s): Adela Kingsbury
Date(s): 1998
Length:
Genre: slash, Bodie/Doyle
Fandom: The Professionals
External Links: online here

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"While All the World is at Mistress Beaufort's Ball" by Adela Kingsbury is a Bodie/Doyle story.

It was published in Night Music in B and D and is online.

Reactions and Reviews

It's an 18th century AU. Bodie is a nobleman attending a kinky party in London and Doyle is in France, thinking about him and the kinky party they met at. It's not technically a dream, but it does has a dream-like atmosphere... I really really wish it had a sequel....[1]

This is an a/u, set in France in 1793. Doyle seems to be a sort of Scarlet Pimpernel, rescuing French nobility from the guillotine, and also doing some unclear kind of intelligence work for someone named Cowley; meanwhile he dreams of the beautiful young Bodie whom he met and fucked at a masquerade in England. This pwp looks like a sequel to something else. Actually it's not fleshed out enough to be a "sequel"; it doesn't quite stand on its own, there's too much reliance on background we don't see. I'd have appreciated some note about where the original appeared, if there was one.[2]

A Related Work

  • "Mistress Beaufort's Masquerade Ball" by Amy A. Morgan is in the same zine

References

  1. ^ from 2007 rec50
  2. ^ In 1998, Shoshanna posted this review to the Virgule-L mailing list. It is reposted here with permission. It is also printed in DIAL #7.