I think I read someplace a criticism of the VW Bus that it used the driver's legs for a crumple zone ... yep, sounds about right!

Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 1:

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

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"Carolyn Keene" oh hell yes and Franklin W. Dixon too!

My ten! You mentioned Anne McCaffrey so I'm going back to high school to start my list. Love the Dragonriders, what a great series.

Anne McCaffrey
Piers Anthony
Robert E. Howard
Jane Austen
Joseph Conrad
Lee Child
Agatha Christie
Dorothy Sayers
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Roger Zelazny
Louisa May Alcott

Ha, I wonder if Kaiser Bill wore one of these to bed each night!

I dunno, Austin was smarter than I am, obvs; but I get the impression Mary was operating in earnest good faith, and Collins was playing a role hoping to win prizes thereby. Like she read Fordyce for self-improvement, he read Fordyce to pose as a righteous man ... ?

Nailed it! I wonder if lady c would have let him marry Mary ... anyway, that's a bullet dodged for her, I'd say