Wednesday has been trying to get a form notarised
What I read
Finished London Clubland, which was really quite good once it got going into the intricacies of the subject as well as some broader contextual questions. Very much about a particular epoch - really, mid-Victorian era to the Great War. A little on origins but those are (from the citations) written up in more detail elsewhere.
Discovered, I think via
redbird that there was a volume of essays by Alison Lurie, Words and Worlds: From Autobiography to Zippers which only came out last year, and as I have been a fan for decades, snapped that up. Also discovered that there was another collection of her essays on children's literature (on which she professed, like the character Vinnie Miner in Foreign Affairs), Boys and Girls Forever: Children's Classics from Cinderella to Harry Potter (2002), which I had managed to miss. Some of these essays seemed familar but I think that is probably because they first appeared in the New York Review of Books, which used to circulate at my former workplace. I suspect that we are, alas, unlikely to see another novel from her...
On the go
Sherwood Smith (ed), It Happened At the Ball (2018) - I was actually looking for her own story in it, Lily and Crown, and saw that although that is available separately, the whole anthology is not much dearer, so took a punt on it.
Up next
Well, I've been sent yet more freebie 'Golden Age' mystery reprints...
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