More pictures to match up with books!
I will be away for the next 10 days: no new posts.
Last
time I went away I cheekily set my lovely readers to work: I published a few of the
pictures I had tucked away in my files, so far unused on the blog, and asked
them to suggest books to suit. This was
such a success, that – as I am away again – I am going to try the experiment
again.
I have a file called Looking for the Right Book –
general illos that I loved enough to save, but was not sure where to use them. So here
are a few of them. Please tell me in the comments if you can think of a great
book to go with. Thank you, and see you back here soon.
[Special note for blogfriend Shay, if she's reading: one of these pics I thought on rediscovering 'Bet Shay will say she has made, or would make, this, OR she will have the perfect book]
I love the fact that you save these, Moira! Even if they don't end up matching a book, they're great. Have a safe trip!
ReplyDeleteHmm. The last one calls out Mitfords to me. Not a specific book., but perhaps Diana, Nancy and Pam meet in town for lunch and a matinee.
ReplyDeleteSusan D
I was thinking some of Harriet Vane's friends (a bit lower on the social ladder, though, so you may be right, especially given the leopard coat).
DeleteThose look like wartime clothes which means Diana probably wouldn't make it to lunch, what with being in prison and all ...
DeleteSovay
The second one reminds me of Lost Lorrenden by Mabel Esther Allan. Heroine obsessed by painting of outdoor dining at country home.
ReplyDeleteI confess to a pair of beach pajamas but Lord -- that was a long time ago!
ReplyDeleteI suppose 'lounge wear' has taken their place.
DeleteI didn't mean that you were in lounge wear Shay, but generally!
DeleteThe first picture is probably American, but it looks like a setting from one of Marjorie Allingham’s London books.
ReplyDeleteNerys
For som reason my first thought was Dorothy Sayers, so we are obviously thinking along the same lines,
DeleteThe woman in red seems to be ice skating which reminds me of a Mrs Olyphant book, but the time period is wrong. And Little Women of course, but again, wrong time period and Amy probably wouldn't be wearing red (except maybe long johns).
ReplyDeleteThe high-class-outerwear ladies might be from one of Elizabeth Daly's mysteries, which sometimes were set among the upper crust of NYC.
ReplyDeleteI will think of some books, but I am intrigued by the advert on the side of the building in the first photo…. Free instruction in domestic economy! I wonder what constituted domestic economy when this was taken!
ReplyDeleteIt looks like part of a well-meant (but potentially quite patronising) Depression-era campaign to help the families of the unemployed make their Welfare payments go further.
DeleteSovay