Work in progress

My apologies for being still a bit absent here lately (as opposed to merely absent-minded, which is an ongoing condition).  Life is still a bit hectic chez Scott.  But I can't resist sharing one project that I'll be spending my free time on once I actually do have free time again.

As I've been poking around the past couple of months, coming across at least 150 more new authors for my list (which will put me well beyond 1,000 writers in all on my list—as well as beyond the pale when it comes to my obsessiveness), I several times came across references to the above-pictured book.  My interest in girls' school stories and in girls' writers specifically has been on the increase of late, anyway (I'm just finishing up my first Gwendoline Courtney novel, as a matter of fact, which will be reviewed here whenever time allows), so my interest was already piqued.  But by the tenth time I came across a mention of the book, I decided it was high time I consulted it.  

Thanks to my better half's access to University of California libraries, it's now in my hands, waiting impatiently for a lull in my schedule.  Just thumbing through it, however, makes clear that there will be many, many more new additions to my Overwhelming List.  

Of course, I have already added the likes of Elinor Brent-Dyer, Dorita Fairlie Bruce, Josephine Elder, Joan Mary Wayne Brown (aka Mary Gervaise), and quite a few more to my list.

But then there are writers such as Margaret Locherbie-Cameron, Veronica Marlow, Norah Mylrea, Winifred Donald, Janet Grey, Constance Harvey, Winifred Norling, Jacqueline Blairman, and many, many more, who will be new additions to the list.  Perhaps a series of updates dedicated specifically to girls' school stories will have to result?

Overwhelming indeed.  But of course I can't wait...

Meanwhile, keep sending positive energy my way in the hope that I will restrain myself from strangling anyone (or crawling under my desk in a fetal position) as I and my co-workers continue to deal with move-related technical issues and adapt to our new "home," as it were.  It has been stressful, to say the least, but I quickly found a prominent location in my new space for my postcard of St. Paul's shrouded in smoke and surrounded by ruins following German bombing raids, and am using it to remind myself that my annoyances are trivial compared to what others have faced.  I imagine that, all things considered, the family pictured below would have preferred to deal with printer glitches and email snags than with their own more urgent problems!

Plus, I really have little to complain about, after Andy surprised me with office-warming flowers yesterday...

I'm off into the fray again now.  More substantive posts to follow soon.  I promise!