Hey, it's lovely to see you back! I know your job keeps you super-busy, but I hope you're still loving it <3333
Ah, Elizabeth Marie Pope, my beloved! She only wrote two novels, as far as I can tell. Her day job was being an English teacher. The Perilous Gard is by far the more famous and quite possibly the objectively better one, but I fell in love with her other one, The Sherwood Ring, back when I was about 14. I inherited it from my mother, who had discovered it in a library in Florida during a family road trip during *her* teenage years in the 1960s (it was published in 1958). She and her older sister loved and adored it, and every year when they went back on their annual family trip to Florida, they would go back to that library and read it again. It was one of those formative books for them, snarky and fun with interesting narrators & several quasi-adversarial romances amiably recounted by friendly and loquacious ghosts from the Revolutionary War era. It will always have a very special place in my heart <3 I do enjoy The Perilous Gard a lot, too, though I only read it once. The part that lingers with me is the ending with that near-perfect revenge so narrowly avoided!
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Ah, Elizabeth Marie Pope, my beloved! She only wrote two novels, as far as I can tell. Her day job was being an English teacher. The Perilous Gard is by far the more famous and quite possibly the objectively better one, but I fell in love with her other one, The Sherwood Ring, back when I was about 14. I inherited it from my mother, who had discovered it in a library in Florida during a family road trip during *her* teenage years in the 1960s (it was published in 1958). She and her older sister loved and adored it, and every year when they went back on their annual family trip to Florida, they would go back to that library and read it again. It was one of those formative books for them, snarky and fun with interesting narrators & several quasi-adversarial romances amiably recounted by friendly and loquacious ghosts from the Revolutionary War era. It will always have a very special place in my heart <3 I do enjoy The Perilous Gard a lot, too, though I only read it once. The part that lingers with me is the ending with that near-perfect revenge so narrowly avoided!