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Vintage Review: The Lightning Conductor
The motoring novel is one of my favorite things about Edwardian popular fiction. By the mid-1910s, most wealthy families in books have cars, but if you go ten years beck, cars are something new and...
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Vintage Review: The Visits of Elizabeth
I suppose it’s ridiculous to genuinely enjoy Elinor Glyn, but I can’t help it. When she’s not making her characters passionately miserable about each other, she has a delightfully catty sense of humor,...
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Vintage Review: The Man in Lower Ten
Mary Roberts Rinehart wrote all sorts of different things — the small percentage of her works that I’ve read include mysteries, serious novels, funny novels, funny short stories, a Christmas story, and...
View ArticleVintage Review: Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice’s Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, the second best-selling book of 1902, is basically a grown-up Pollyanna, a decade before Pollyanna. It’s not really as good as Pollyanna...
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Vintage Review: Prince or Chauffeur?
So, apparently the Williamsons weren’t the only people who wrote about men disguising themselves as chauffeurs — Lawrence Perry did it too. Prince or Chauffeur? sounds like a Williamson-ish title too....
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Vintage Review: The Clue
The Clue is Carolyn Wells’ first mystery novel — it’s from 1909 — and possibly her best. Much as I love Carolyn Wells, I’m completely willing to admit that there’s a certain sameness to her mystery...
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Vintage Review: Lord Loveland Discovers America
Lord Loveland Discovers America, by those automobile fiends A.M. and C.N. Williamson, is sort of a sequel to Lady Betty Across the Water — Val (short for Percival, one of the Marquis of Loveland’s many...
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Vintage Review: Old Rose and Silver
I downloaded Old Rose and Silver before I started Myrtle Reed’s Lavender and Old Lace, back when I thought Lavender and Old Lace was going to be good. And then, I did want to give Myrtle Reed another...
View ArticleVintage Fiction for Your Downton Fix
Major publishers were quick to cash in on the rousing success of Downton Abbey by suggesting books they felt would appeal to fans of the show. Not surprisingly, they and the multitude of comments from...
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Historian Jerry White’s Top five women writers of the First World War
Over on The Telegraph, Jerry White, whose upcoming release Zeppelin Nights chronicles life in London during the first “London Blitz,” lists five books written by women about WWI. Some titles are...
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