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There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I don't think I actually read any Mary Stewart, but I read others like her -- Dorothy Eden and Victoria Holt especially.
Sort of on topic, too, when I was at a Catholic high school in Philly for a writing thing, I was in one of the English classrooms, and there were copies of Mistress of Mellyn by Victoria Holt, which really surprised me. I'd never heard of a book like that taught in a high school before.
Mary Stewart, Victoria Holt, Jane Aiken Hodge, Elizabeth Peters . . . love them all.
Elizabeth Peters (aka Barbara Michaels aka Barbara Mertz) died not too long ago. sigh ....
I didn't know that!! Dammit!
Victoria Holt was also Phillipa Carr, and Jean Plaidy--all three pseuds for Eleanor (Alice Buford) Hibbert. Who knew?
I did! I knew that! ::grins::
I was surprised to find that Dorothy Eden was only even Dorothy Eden apparently.
I feel like there's one author from this genre that I'm overlooking, but I can't think of her name.
I do remember that after this era came the era of the Sprawling Family Epic, a la Evergreen and A Woman of Substance.
Phyllis Whitney! That's who I was forgetting. I read a million of her books, too.
I tried a couple of Whitney's but they were too cliche. Something about an orphan who caused trouble because her parents were "bad".
Oddly, Whitney had no pseuds. I thought Plaidy was Whitney for a while. Whitney was 104 when she died!
I JUST finally started reading the whole Amelia Peabody series.