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STEP OFF HARRIET VANE (a links round-up)

Hello my scrumptious delights! Did you miss my links round-up last time, when I did not do one? I did! But here I am again with a new one. Edan Lepucki thinks about whether character likeability is beside the point, at The Millions. And I kept thinking about how nobody liked Harriet Vane when Strong Poison came out. I know about this from Dorothy Sayers’s letters. Readers wrote to her in droves begging her not to marry Peter to that dreadful woman. BACK OFF, people of the 1930s. Harriet Vane is one of my favorite characters in all of literature.…

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