All you Trollopians out there sure know your stuff. Melanie Kirkpatrick writes of the Jan. 15 Reading List: “Alice Vavasor, not Laura Kennedy, is one of the two ladies with suitable and unsuitable suitors in Can You Forgive Her.?” Lauren Weiner points out that “Laura Kennedy was in Phineas Finn, and she was torn between a man who deserved her and excited her (Phineas) and a real drip ( Kennedy).”
The flap over the authorship of It Takes a gillage puts the Reading List in mind of works featuring ghosts:
Macbeth. Who could forget Banquo’s ghost? Is Barbara Feinman a dagger Hillary sees before her?
The Divine Comedy. The poet Virgil must remain a shade, forever outside of Paradise, because he was not baptized kind of like being denied a White House pass.
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? Hillary’s claim that she is the sole author of her book is so ludicrous that even the moronic ghost-hunting detectives of this long-running Saturday morning cartoon could break the case.
Wuthering Heights. Cathy and Heathcliff meet again only as ghosts on the moors, which is probably where Barbara Feinman had to stash her copy of the original manuscript.
Okay, find that error.
