Forgotten treasures
While sorting and tossing my early notebooks, I usually note titles I read and loved. Many I've utterly forgotten, and some I remember but the Suck Fairy has waved the Wand of Guano over them. But once in a while I hit a title and get this flash of whoa, I remember that! One I'd checked out repeatedly from our library was Doris Sutcliffe Adams' No Man's Son, set during the Third Crusade, and with an active heroine.
In my memory, it's right up there with Mara, Daughter of the Nile, which finally saw reprint and discovery by a whole new generation. So I looked up Doris Sutcliffe Adams, to be completely stonewalled. No info on her, except a pseud she also wrote under, Grace Ingram. (Which I hadn't known, or our library hadn't carried.) Even worse, copies of No Man's Son go for three and four C-notes, so obviously those few copies still out there are being hung onto.
If I had discretionary income, I would so start up a press and hunt down these sorts of books and get them out again! Meanwhile, I wonder who she was, and if she left any other writings.
In my memory, it's right up there with Mara, Daughter of the Nile, which finally saw reprint and discovery by a whole new generation. So I looked up Doris Sutcliffe Adams, to be completely stonewalled. No info on her, except a pseud she also wrote under, Grace Ingram. (Which I hadn't known, or our library hadn't carried.) Even worse, copies of No Man's Son go for three and four C-notes, so obviously those few copies still out there are being hung onto.
If I had discretionary income, I would so start up a press and hunt down these sorts of books and get them out again! Meanwhile, I wonder who she was, and if she left any other writings.