[LMB] QOTD #7: Emotional genre, re: ACC dedication (Sat. Mar. 1st)

[Elvi Dalgaard]

Tora K. Smulders-Srinivasan wrote:
> Question of the Day (QOTD) #7: Emotional genre, re: ACC dedication
> (Sat. Mar. 1st)
>
> Would you view LMB's work as in the same genre (emotionally, not
> technically) as the four authors cited in the dedication of "A Civil
> Campaign"?
>   
Oh, yes! Definitely inheritances from all four, and actually it was upon 
reading this dedication that suddenly the light dawned for me and I said 
"OH! THAT's why I like her so much! Her favourites are all mine, too..."

When I finished rereading Heyer's "The Foundling" recently, it struck me 
all over again and I saw LMB character origins all over it. Gregor's 
adventure so reminded me of Gilly's, for instance.

I always wondered how others reacted to that dedication, and whether it 
was instantly clear to most of LMB's readers who those people were, or 
whether she has a lot of readers who were not familiar with the four 
ladies. Perhaps there are a lot of people who have now read and enjoyed 
Heyer, Sayers, Austen and Bronte who would otherwise never have picked 
them up? Are there any here now?

Elvi