Re: Forgotten novelists

Nick Spalding <spalding@xxxxxx> wrote:

In the back of my copy of "The Day's Work" by Kipling (first edition,
second printing, October 1998, in poor condition) there are
advertisements for books by some of Macmillan's other authors:

Rolf Boldrewood (1)
Egerton Castle
Frank R. Stockton
Cecil Lowis
A. J. Dawson
Maarten Maartens (1)
S. Weir Mitchell, M.D.
Mrs. Oliphant (1)
Maurice Hewlett
Robert Herrick (not the C16/17 Poet)
Herbert Ellicott Hamblen (2)
James Lane Allen

(1) These three I have heard of but never read.
(2) This chap is unknown to Google but does have several entries with
Eliot with various numbers of 'l's and 't's.

Do any of them ring bells with you?

Frank Stockton looked familiar, but for the wrong reason. I thought of
the novel _The Octopus_ but as Wikipedia says:

The Octopus: A California Story, 1901 novel by Frank
Norris, based on conflict between farmers and railroad
barons

Stockton being a city in the Central Valley of California must have
contributed to my mistake.

It turns out Frank Stockton is the one who wrote "The Lady or the
Tiger."

The others, no.

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