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Nearly done. Books all on shelves. And they fit in more-or-less reasonable order. My personal categorisation techniques leave much to be desired, but oh well... There's one half-shelf which is more or less 'Women, 1880-present'. Thus we have Letters from Louisa next to Marie Stopes, next to a couple of random biographies and a book on women and religion in the eighties, and a bit further along we have Drusilla Modjeska next to an autobiography about life after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and next to THAT the Generic Puberty Guide I had when was pre-pubescent, followed by Baghdad Burning. The other half of that shelf is ostensibly Modern Literature from Jane Austen to Alex Jones, via Edgar Allen Poe and Brokeback Mountain...
On the up-side, the self above that is a lovely sweep of the English Language from Beowulf to Shakespeare, excluding Arthuriana and including (for lack of anywhere better to put them) a couple of non-Arthurian Old French texts. Followed, appropriately, by literary and historcical commentary from 'The Celts in Europe' to 'Feminism and Renaissance Studies'.
Also, I found a small heap of books I haven't had out for... six? ten? years. Including, much to my dreadful delight, Ann M. Marston's The Western King, responsible for my first encounter with Magic Psychic Fantasy Sex. I started re-reading it, naturally, and, with the added insight of four years' medieval studies, am intriuged. What I'd taken for straight down the line Celto-fantasy is in fact Celto-Saxon Fantasy, with a full complement of Vikings, Scots and inexplicable Romans, all under thinly veiled pseudonyms. Given that it's about a Magic Prophesied King Uniting The Land Against Either The Not-Vikings or the Not-Romans or both, I would put it on the Arthurian shelf, except that there's no space since I put Narnia in Tolkien and the Mabinogion.
On the up-side, the self above that is a lovely sweep of the English Language from Beowulf to Shakespeare, excluding Arthuriana and including (for lack of anywhere better to put them) a couple of non-Arthurian Old French texts. Followed, appropriately, by literary and historcical commentary from 'The Celts in Europe' to 'Feminism and Renaissance Studies'.
Also, I found a small heap of books I haven't had out for... six? ten? years. Including, much to my dreadful delight, Ann M. Marston's The Western King, responsible for my first encounter with Magic Psychic Fantasy Sex. I started re-reading it, naturally, and, with the added insight of four years' medieval studies, am intriuged. What I'd taken for straight down the line Celto-fantasy is in fact Celto-Saxon Fantasy, with a full complement of Vikings, Scots and inexplicable Romans, all under thinly veiled pseudonyms. Given that it's about a Magic Prophesied King Uniting The Land Against Either The Not-Vikings or the Not-Romans or both, I would put it on the Arthurian shelf, except that there's no space since I put Narnia in Tolkien and the Mabinogion.