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I may have to buy my own copy of The Book of Forgotten Authors because even if I take notes, I forget the exact write-up, and may find myself putting a library hold on a domestic tale of smothering horror instead of a classic thriller written by a woman.
Though speaking of 'written by a woman', this is written by a man, which is the only reason I can think of why he includes Georgette Heyer as a forgotten author. Given that he's also a Brit, I have no idea why he also includes those household names Margery Allingham, John Dickson Carr, and Edmund Crispin. Man clearly doesn't move in the same circles I do. Did wonder if it was a generational thing but no, Fowler is a mere three years younger than I am. Maybe he believes nobody reads the above authors now except for people with literate boomer parents who passed their libraries on to the kidlings. But I'm a boomer and I got Ronald Firbank from my preWW1 mother.
(Really, either she was a very strange woman or I was a very odd child, and I still don't know which. Who gives an eleven year old Swinburne and Sappho for Christmas, along with Louisa May Alcott and Antonia Forest's school stories?)
Though speaking of 'written by a woman', this is written by a man, which is the only reason I can think of why he includes Georgette Heyer as a forgotten author. Given that he's also a Brit, I have no idea why he also includes those household names Margery Allingham, John Dickson Carr, and Edmund Crispin. Man clearly doesn't move in the same circles I do. Did wonder if it was a generational thing but no, Fowler is a mere three years younger than I am. Maybe he believes nobody reads the above authors now except for people with literate boomer parents who passed their libraries on to the kidlings. But I'm a boomer and I got Ronald Firbank from my preWW1 mother.
(Really, either she was a very strange woman or I was a very odd child, and I still don't know which. Who gives an eleven year old Swinburne and Sappho for Christmas, along with Louisa May Alcott and Antonia Forest's school stories?)