She never would be missed
I just finished reading a book called There Is No Death, by Florence Marryat, dingbat daughter of Captain Marryat.
Apparently, when she wasn't writing sensation novels and buggering about with fraudulent mediums Flo used to knock around with Gilbert and Sullivan. You know, if the sexist line 'And that singular anomaly the lady novelist' was written with Florence Marryat was written in mind, I almost forgive them. God know I'd have stuck her on The List. She sounds like a mindbuggeringly annoying woman - the Storm of the late Nineteenth century.
This is probably one of the major reasons I don't post on LJ that often anymore, because this is the kind of thing I read all the time now. I've read lots and lots of very very strange books about ghosts, spirits, seances and so on, most of them horribly written and most of them displaying eyewatering levels of credulity on the parts of the author. And honestly? I think the minutae of Nineteenth/Twentieth century spiritualism would be a very boring thing to bang on about all the time. I find it fascinating, but I tend to become obsessive about things that catch my interest.
Obviously it makes me quite dull at dinner parties but on the flip side, if you ever need a seance faked? I'm your gal.
Apparently, when she wasn't writing sensation novels and buggering about with fraudulent mediums Flo used to knock around with Gilbert and Sullivan. You know, if the sexist line 'And that singular anomaly the lady novelist' was written with Florence Marryat was written in mind, I almost forgive them. God know I'd have stuck her on The List. She sounds like a mindbuggeringly annoying woman - the Storm of the late Nineteenth century.
This is probably one of the major reasons I don't post on LJ that often anymore, because this is the kind of thing I read all the time now. I've read lots and lots of very very strange books about ghosts, spirits, seances and so on, most of them horribly written and most of them displaying eyewatering levels of credulity on the parts of the author. And honestly? I think the minutae of Nineteenth/Twentieth century spiritualism would be a very boring thing to bang on about all the time. I find it fascinating, but I tend to become obsessive about things that catch my interest.
Obviously it makes me quite dull at dinner parties but on the flip side, if you ever need a seance faked? I'm your gal.