'Shindig'
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."
aw ... I loved Andre Norton's books. And I think some of them set examples of man/woman relationships that were a lot more equal than the real-life ones I saw during the '50s.
Does Gerald Durrell count as historical?
Lawrence Durrell? I think Gerald wrote about animals ....
My first crush on a book character was on Ross Murdoch in Norton's Time Trader books.
I've been thinking I need to get some books out of the library. Time to re-read Andre.
I think Gerald wrote about animals ....
Yes, but almost all of it is autobiographical -- Corfu in the '30s, England in the '40s, west Africa in the '50s -- and is as much about people and places as it is about animals.
I remember hating Lawrence's stuff, but it was long enough ago that I don't remember why.
My first crush on a book character was on Ross Murdoch in Norton's Time Trader books.
Eomer from Lord of the Rings for me.
I never read Lawrence, but I was intrigued and frequently delighted reading about Gerald's far-flung childhood habitats and the creatures he encountered/adopted/studied.
If I have a literary hero, it's probably Robin Hood. I have a collection including children's and YA novels (Wyeth and Hildebrandt illos!), romances, fantasies, and scholarly examinations of the myth and legend including an 1850's book with leather spine and quarterboards entitled Robin Hood: Being a collection of Ballads and tales from the Borderlands...and I forget the rest. It goes on quite a ways. It's a very odd little thing, but I'm pleased to have it. Second (heh. of course) would be F'nor of the Dragonweyrs, second in command to his more flamboyant brother F'lar, figurehead and leader of the weyrs. F'nor was rider of brown Canth, in McCaffrey's first two Pern novels, loyal, perceptive, observant, and reflective, more levelheaded than his brother, and a half-step out of the limelight. My kind of guy.
Girl heroes: Nancy Drew, Podkayne of Mars, Menolly of the Harperhall, Marion in McKinley's Outlaws of Sherwood, Gillan in Norton's Year of the Unicorn, lots of Norton's women and girls, who seemed to function just fine with or without male support, Harriet Vane.
I'm sure there are more of either gender, these are all that come immediately to mind.
Flickr set of Gothic Romance covers from the 60s.
I used to have the Dennis Wheatley book with that exact cover. I may still (not sure I ever got around to reading it, but the Hammer movie was quite good).
I am pretty sure I still have the 2 Victoria Holt books at my mom's house.
Victoria Holt is Jean Plaidy--pass it on!
I think she has another pen name, too. I'm just too lazy to Google right now.