"...indigestible transcendental pudding."

[anteros_lmc]

Comments

[eglantine_br]

I agree with her completely. I wonder what she would have thought of dear Basil Hall...

[anteros_lmc]

I'm now half way through the book and alas no mention of dear Basil. The opinionated Miss Fox Smith was primarily a chronicler of the merchant service so I suspect Basil was ruled out on account of his being RN through and through. Though Marryat was too of course.

[mylodon]

Oh, I do like her. She'd have been at home here.

[anteros_lmc]

Exactly what I thought! This book has got "fangirl" stamped all over it and I believe she wrote many, many more. I wonder if she wrote limericks too? ;)

[mylodon]

I bet she did. Strikes me as a classy girl.

Jane Austen would have been a navy fangirl, too, had she been born a couple of centuries later. I can imagine her writing H/A fic.

[shepet]

Judgment is final and binding :))

[anteros_lmc]

Indeed. I suspect Miss Fox Smith was not a woman to argue with!

[vespican]

Pretty much agree with her thoughts about Melville.
Dave

[anteros_lmc]

Yes, can't argue with that!