Daily vexations

[flemmings]

And now it's the upstairs tablet that's playing silly buggers and suddenly refusing to charge. Finally managed to get it to 100%, but now I'm worried the cable is loose or something, and of course the downstairs charger is too big. Both Galaxy Tab A but different models.

Decided to go to the first Mrs. Bradley just to get things straight and oh dear oh dear oh dear. Mitchell's love of the stereotype (Irishmen are impatient,  Welshmen dour, Jews think only in terms of money) goes supersonic when she has Black characters. Points for including them (does any other Golden Age writer?) but not like *that*. Jeez, even Conan Doyle did it better. And he had Indian characters which none of his later descendants managed, that I've come across.

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[oursin]

Sayers, in Unnatural Death (1927), has the Rev Hallelujah Dawson, a West Indian clergyman, a distant cousin of the deceased.

[flemmings]

Doesn't sound much better than Mitchell's examples, to be honest.

[oursin]

Allingham is a lot worse - compared to Tether's End, when it transpires that the black sheep nephew was blackmailing the family by threatening to reveal that he was mixed race, and Campion's and indeed Allingham's sympathies appear to be with the family, I think Sayers' attitude to Rev Hallelujah is practically woke. Marsh is awful too.

[flemmings]

I remember the awfulness of Marsh even though I was barely into my teens when I read her, but thanks for the heads up re Allingham.

[skygiants]

Yeah, this is the one that put me on pause with Campion.

[flemmings]

As well it might.