So when last we left off, we were thinking perhaps the Right People were kind of... scumbags. From their plotting an honor killing to their emphasis on looks to their making the good E. O. Hetty whip up a three-course dinner by herself ( Read more... )

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1. guacamole
2. turkey breast slices
3. swiss cheese
4. some kind of crusty bread or roll

Slice roll, place 1 slice cheese inside, toast until cheese is melted, add guac, add turkey, consume before cold.

Is she still suffering from More Innocent Times Writer's Syndrome? Oh, yes.

This is from By Way of the Silverthornes and oh golly.*

*Not an expression her heroines would use. They are ladies.
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godammit.

So. GLH is a writer I hail as a fairly egalitarian sort. We've been over her innate classism combined with her philanthropic belief that the lower classes should still be elevated; throughout her work runs the theme of making things pretty, pleasant, or generally better through hard work, thrift, artistic elegance, cleanliness, and fairy godmothers ( Read more... )

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The first thing Hilda does is, of course, think of God.
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Right. Remember the ungodly fuss made over the pass?
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Right. Having gone to all this trouble to arrange her wardrobe, Hilda disarranges it in the most stunning move yet of any GLH heroine. Ready?
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