Irene Adler

In the Collapsed Cosmos, Irene Adler was present at the Red Lion Inn when Jenny Everywhere and Glendalf took refuge there from the Wild Hunt. The Whore of Babylon was advertising her services to her. (PROSE: The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere)

Behind the scenes

Irene Adler is a notorious character from the Sherlock Holmes mythos; created by Arthur Conan Doyle himself, she debuted in the 1891 short story A Scandal in Bohemia and was referenced in several others of his stories. The only woman ever to have outwitted Holmes (and one of very few characters overall), she managed to actually earn his grudging respect. Later adaptions have often made Irene into a romantic interest for Sherlock Holmes.

Given 19th century mores, Doyle's Irene was not depicted, nor even hinted, to be anything but heterosexual (A Scandal in Bohemia centers on the consequence of her one-time affair with the Crown Prince of Bohemia, and sees her getting married to a different man, Godfrey Norton, in the present day). However, Jeanne Morningstar's The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere was not the first reimagining to portray an apparently bisexual Irene, as the rebooted, 21st-century Irene of the BBC TV series Sherlock was depicted as primarily attracted to women, with her interest in Holmes an apparent exception.

Sherlock Holmes-related concepts in Jenny Everywhere media
Individuals Irene Adler • Sexton Blake • Mycroft Holmes • Sherlock Holmes • Inspector Lestrade • Professor Moriarty • Doctor Watson Locations 221B Baker Street