I've really enjoyed reading the two books Jim gave me in the Virago Modern Classics series

One is two novellas by Vita Sackville-West "Seducers in Ecuador & The Heir". Both quite charming and amusing in their way. And currently enjoying discovering a completely new author to me, Catherine Carswell, a Scottish lady who published the book I'm reading in 1922. It's called "The Camomile" which is a novel of letters and journals somewhat autobiographical. Quite an interesting person in that she became a dramatic and literary critic for the Glasgow Herald...a very unusual thing for a woman to be doing in 1906! She was a friend of D. H. Lawrence who had admiration for her writing and she for his. After nine years of writing for the Herald she was fired for writing a favourable review of "The Rainbow"...very scandalous for the times. The review was only published because she managed to smuggle the piece to the printer without the editor's approval. Seems like she would have been an interesting person to know.

Looking forward to being introduced to more women writers from this press.