Thor Bridge: Recommended Publications

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Canon Story: Thor Bridge
Title: Recommended Publications (as featured in the Marylebone Illustrated)
Author:thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

Should any of our readers wish to spend the occasional evening reading items of fiction, we would recommend The New Review, which features stories by such excellent authors as Henry James and H G Wells.  These are of a far higher standard than the romances by amongst others Caroline Emily Cameron which are to be found in the Family Herald.

Comments

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Good that you specify 'evening reading,' saving the eggs across London from further damage.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

One should never indulge in such reading matter in the morning.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

The New Review does sound wonderful. But I would never disparage the romances in the the Family Herald - they're obviously giving some readers a lot of pleasure. (And when you live in the same household as Sherlock Holmes, you perhaps have to find your comforts where you can ^_^)

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

We are sure those who merely wish to read romances require no introduction the Family Herald. However, we feel it is our duty to keep our readership informed of the benefits which may come from reading some of the better fiction.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Ah yes the dear old double standard. Stories written by men are literature - stories written by women are romantic drivel. (Rather like the sneering dismissal of fanfiction since it's mostly written by women.)

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

We would have recommended Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine which included works by George Eliot, but it is not always easy to obtain copies in the south.

[godsdaisiechain.livejournal.com]

George Eliot was not open about her sex/gender....

To hopefully ameliorate some sneering dismissal: I'm not 100% sure that HG Wells was considered literature at the time... he certainly didn't make it into the academic canon in the US until the very late 20th century.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Wells was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921.

[godsdaisiechain.livejournal.com]

?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nsxS3TlJNI? (Hopefully the link works in your neck of the woods.)

*rapid research followed by indignant noises*

Wikipedia says he was nominated 4 times... which makes it even sorrier (imho) that his work (or any science fiction) was considered too "déclassé" to be studied seriously at my college or either of my graduate institutions until very late last century.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Long live the chocolate cow - the link worked :)

[godsdaisiechain.livejournal.com]

I am so glad I staggered in amongst you... I learn so much each week.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

We are a mine of (generally useless) information.

[godsdaisiechain.livejournal.com]

It's not useless in my line of work, actually. *confused cow noise*

[godsdaisiechain.livejournal.com]

Sage advice: Avoid silly novels by lady novelists.... instead indulge in genre fiction by HG Wells.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

What can be more unreasonable, to expect love at first sight, or to travel in time?

[godsdaisiechain.livejournal.com]

Journeying to the moon, perhaps?

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Entirely reasonable.

[godsdaisiechain.livejournal.com]

better than Udolpho...

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Isn't everything?

[godsdaisiechain.livejournal.com]

The Monk?

[debriswoman]

Oh yes...romance vs literature...an old divide...still present...

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

We understand there are those who enjoy a good romance, but this should never be at the expense of a boiled egg.

[debriswoman]

Of course:-)

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Exactly! Doesn't anybody think of the breakfast?! That's the true casualty whether it's love or time travel!

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Although one supposes if it were time travel, the pan might boil dry and set fire to the kitchen before anyone realised.

[godsdaisiechain.livejournal.com]

Which Catherine Morland hopefully came to discover rather before she and Henry Tilney had any issue...