tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post5465740407672248392..comments2024-02-10T19:58:20.327+00:00Comments on Stuck in a Book: Oh, hello again, Miss Hargreaves!StuckInABookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10017836017530130716noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-10673435014720280872012-11-13T13:06:35.957+00:002012-11-13T13:06:35.957+00:00Anthony Trollope's characters pop up in his di...Anthony Trollope's characters pop up in his different novels, also in Angela Thirkell. 'Rosamund'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-29678447990486972062012-03-16T08:31:34.810+00:002012-03-16T08:31:34.810+00:00This is wonderful! Many years ago I read Miss Har...This is wonderful! Many years ago I read Miss Hargreaves and have never forgotten her. (Yes, I would have reread her a few times.) However I did forget the name of the author and I lost the book ages ago. Now I rediscover that the author is Frank Baker. What's more, he has written other books. I cannot wait to get my hands on some.<br /><br />Miss Hargreaves and the spur of the moment philosophy or law of the universe - or whatever it was - have remained an inspiration for me. I do half believe in them. Life is actually very like that and I have always since valued the imaginative excuse for being late or whatever.<br /><br />Wonderful to know that there are others out there like me.<br /><br />Sheila N<br />http://candobetter.net/astridnovahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01084484463934055512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-16975390394764227862012-01-28T20:19:37.607+00:002012-01-28T20:19:37.607+00:00Oo, nice example - even though I've read both,...Oo, nice example - even though I've read both, I didn't spot that.<br /><br />And, yes, Miss H soon, please!StuckInABookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10017836017530130716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-31888630266081811712012-01-26T20:44:03.571+00:002012-01-26T20:44:03.571+00:00Oh dear, I bought Miss Hargreaves years ago (on yo...Oh dear, I bought Miss Hargreaves years ago (on your recommendation of course) but have still to read it :oS I'm not sure if this counts, but E.M. Forster's Howards End includes a reference to a 'wretched, weedy’ character called Mr Vyse, who I like to think is Cecil Vyse from Forster's A Room with a View. I mean, Vyse is hardly a commen surname.A Bookish Spacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15352870732457077916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-68996867019013385572012-01-25T11:51:14.393+00:002012-01-25T11:51:14.393+00:00I've only read one Pym novel; I must revisit h...I've only read one Pym novel; I must revisit her, it's been seven years now...StuckInABookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10017836017530130716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-14490981703881675222012-01-25T02:14:51.360+00:002012-01-25T02:14:51.360+00:00Barbara Pym does this quite a bit,sometimes charac...Barbara Pym does this quite a bit,sometimes characters are mentioned in passing, sometimes they are explored in more depth from one novel to another yet her novels are definitely not a series. <br /><br />I love donkeys too.Mereniahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00597354144052341218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-52271060868105577122012-01-24T23:52:58.268+00:002012-01-24T23:52:58.268+00:00Funny that, isn't it? ;) Yes, you're safe...Funny that, isn't it? ;) Yes, you're safe now... I'm lucky the doves aren't all as hardened bullies as I am, otherwise we'd never have a moment's peace.<br /><br />I forgot to include it in the blog post, but I was thinking of Jane Austen's letters too - she also gives outlines of what happens to them, doesn't she? Or it's Austen-Leigh's Memoir, or something... I love the extension of characters beyond their books.StuckInABookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10017836017530130716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-49739236013354532172012-01-24T21:06:28.107+00:002012-01-24T21:06:28.107+00:00Funny how Miss H pops up in your conversation with...Funny how Miss H pops up in your conversation with alarming frequency, isn't it Simon? Thank goodness I've read it! Barbara Pym often pops one of her characters into another book. I feel about her books as you do about Miss H so I'm always pleased to wave at one of them as they're mentioned in passing. My favourite example isn't in a novel, though. It's the letter Jane Austen wrote to Cassandra about sseeing Jane Bingley's portrait in an exhibition but not one of Elizabeth Darcy. She thought Mr Darcy would have too fine a sense of delicacy to want his wife's portrait exhibited.lynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04509400868331534237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-66503450965091669442012-01-24T18:34:43.921+00:002012-01-24T18:34:43.921+00:00Lovely coincidence! And NATURALLY you are loving ...Lovely coincidence! And NATURALLY you are loving it, how could you possibly do anything else?StuckInABookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10017836017530130716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-91871822582558942102012-01-24T14:56:08.605+00:002012-01-24T14:56:08.605+00:00WELLLLL...as a matter of fact, I purchased 'Mi...WELLLLL...as a matter of fact, I purchased 'Miss Hargreaves' about a year ago on your recommendation, but JUST started reading it on the train yesterday morning, and about 20 minutes ago read the bit with Agatha ('Do you think Agatha's a monkey) sinking. Kismet! I'm absolutely loving, actually more than expected! :)DMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15435206223622005832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-91888186873563150342012-01-24T12:58:36.090+00:002012-01-24T12:58:36.090+00:00You get ten points!
I adore the colour. It is my...You get ten points!<br /><br />I adore the colour. It is my favourite - my bedrooms in Worcestershire and Somerset were/are both painted that colour - it's so happy and cheering! And so you can imagine how delighted I was that they chose that colour for Miss H. It's like it was meant especially for me :)StuckInABookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10017836017530130716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-34720345342535313152012-01-24T12:23:08.714+00:002012-01-24T12:23:08.714+00:00I understood the reference (yay!). I, too, love th...I understood the reference (yay!). I, too, love this sort of thing. I cannot think of one off the top of my head, but I know that I've come across some. I even love the more frequent serendipity of references to other books that you've just recently read within the tale of another. I rec'd Death Comes to Pemberley for Christmas, and OVW has just reminded me it needs to be closer to the top of the stack. :)<br />And for a superficial plug for Miss Hargreaves...the reprint cover has to be one of the prettiest colors of blue in print. Such a calming color. ;)Susan in TXhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09550766549670690646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-72517283765088415642012-01-24T11:53:32.177+00:002012-01-24T11:53:32.177+00:00Does that make us frail?? Gosh!
I did enjoy Old F...Does that make us frail?? Gosh!<br />I did enjoy Old Friends and New Fancies by Sybil Brinton, where characters from all 6 Austen novels turn up and intermarry!StuckInABookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10017836017530130716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-42737267300413022002012-01-24T11:52:41.527+00:002012-01-24T11:52:41.527+00:00Hurrah! I do hope you manage to get to it soon, a...Hurrah! I do hope you manage to get to it soon, and enjoy spending time with Miss H :)StuckInABookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10017836017530130716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-73331760484584981782012-01-24T11:52:14.978+00:002012-01-24T11:52:14.978+00:00Oh, Claire, it must, it must! But you are spoilin...Oh, Claire, it must, it must! But you are spoiling me with all my much-loved books that you're reading, so I shan't get *too* angry if you don't.StuckInABookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10017836017530130716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-12385341156776934382012-01-24T11:51:48.829+00:002012-01-24T11:51:48.829+00:00Well done you! Miss H obviously made an impressio...Well done you! Miss H obviously made an impression... and yes, it was a lovely touch on Baker's behalf. She gets around!StuckInABookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10017836017530130716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-26591177735554026062012-01-24T08:58:11.029+00:002012-01-24T08:58:11.029+00:00Having just read 'Death Comes to Pemberley'...Having just read 'Death Comes to Pemberley' (P D James) I confess that some of the bits I enjoyed the most were when she made reference to characters from Emma and Persuasion. It was rather fun to think of various people being 'taken in' by Lydia and Wickham - particularly those peripheral characters one likes to dislike.<br />I'm sure there must have been many thumbnail sketches beloved by authors and popped in where they could be popped, over time - but I can't think of any just now.<br />A modern equivalent might be the cameo appearence in a film - eg Colin Dexter in Morse and Hitchcock in each of his films.<br />Human nature is frail - we all like an 'in' joke!OVWnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-22845629086040293582012-01-24T03:33:51.942+00:002012-01-24T03:33:51.942+00:00Finally reading Miss Hargreaves is one of my top r...Finally reading <i>Miss Hargreaves</i> is one of my top resolutions for 2012. It will happen. It must.Claire (The Captive Reader)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07430380065718826213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-44765463286709572002012-01-24T02:49:51.800+00:002012-01-24T02:49:51.800+00:00Have not read Miss Hargreaves but have every inten...Have not read Miss Hargreaves but have every intention to this year, soon! In fact, it's already in my 'most-looking-forward-to-read' stack, thanks to you. As for characters popping up in unexpected places, can't think of any right now. But I agree that when it does happen, it's certainly delightful.michellehttp://inkyfoot.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-55546975156576204942012-01-24T02:04:52.940+00:002012-01-24T02:04:52.940+00:00First off, I'm very proud of myself for unders...First off, I'm very proud of myself for understanding the reference (and I've only read Miss H. once!). And I love how he put it in a second book, because it just makes her all the more "real" doesn't it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com