Comments on: The Shooting Party, Isabel Colegate https://readingtheend.com/2009/04/26/the-shooting-party-isabel-colegate/ before I read the middle Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:00:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: The Shooting Party | Sibling of Daedalus https://readingtheend.com/2009/04/26/the-shooting-party-isabel-colegate/#comment-13157 Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:00:23 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=686#comment-13157 […] (which was featured in 2008 as part of the Washington Post’s Neglected Book Series) here, here and […]

]]> By: T Weston https://readingtheend.com/2009/04/26/the-shooting-party-isabel-colegate/#comment-13156 Sat, 07 Aug 2010 10:04:32 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=686#comment-13156 Bit of a coincidence, though, to come up with exactly the same highly unusual name… never mind, it just grated somewhat.

]]> By: Jenny https://readingtheend.com/2009/04/26/the-shooting-party-isabel-colegate/#comment-13155 Fri, 06 Aug 2010 22:02:29 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=686#comment-13155 In reply to T Weston.

But she may not have known. It’s not insufficient research in fiction not to know something that hasn’t got anything to do with the topic you’re writing on. I don’t think it’s an impossible coincidence that she might not have known about the composer (I didn’t).

]]> By: T Weston https://readingtheend.com/2009/04/26/the-shooting-party-isabel-colegate/#comment-13154 Fri, 06 Aug 2010 20:24:01 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=686#comment-13154 I find it objectionable that Isabel Colegate uses the name of Cornelius Cardew, a fine avant garde composer, for one of her characters. It is, certainly, an interesting name, but this does not merit lifting it for her own purposes. It shows insufficient research and a certain naive-ity. Sadly, because otherwise the book is extremely interesting. I once saw Cardew lecture and he was a very interesting composer and thinker and founder of the idea if the scratch orchestra. Also his family includes the excellent potter Michael Cardew. I don’t think it is acceptable to simply use someone’s name because you like the sound of it without due respect to the individual concerned.

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