I wonder if the novels of Dorothy Evelyn Smith are only unknown in the US. "Oh, the Brave Music" has been a favorite since childhood .I think it may have been a book club edition in the 1950, as I found it in my uncles bookshelf with other books popular in that era. I took out many of her other books from the library, only to find that in later years they'd been tossed (sold in a library book sale "cancelled" stamped on 'em). Searching used book stores has only yielded that first novel, reinforcing the book club theory. Her detailed depictions of the life of average and poor people in the rapidly changing world around 1900, in the north of England fascinated me, and made me fall in love with Yorkshire long before "All Creatures Great and Small" hit PBS here. What do the English think of her? Joanne the Anglophile from Cleveland
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