[Sca-cooks] scottish foodstuffs

[johnna holloway]

NO... I did not write those remarks.
So there... all I did was correct 'lanie's
scots oats quote and mention a nice book
about the Scots and their oats. I did not
get into Dickens and Orwell and such like.
Please look elsewhere for your culprit.
I mean all I am is a little growing older
by the minute reference librarian and
bibliographer and here you have me "ME" going on
about Dickens and Wodehouse and Orwell..

I mean really.............

Johnna Holloway  Johnnae llyn Lewis



Volker Bach wrote:
>
> > johnna holloway wrote:
>
> > Are there _any_ pleasant, kind, British authors of the old school
> > (except for Wodehouse and perhaps George Orwell, who may not be of the
> > old school)? I've just been reading about Dickens' scathing remarks
> > regarding America written after his five-month tour, which, it turns
> > out, issue from a man who grew up in a slum much worse than the Five
> > Points in New York (which he had decried as a sort of Hell On Earth),
> > largely out of anger because, due to American copyright laws of the
> > time, he felt he wasn't getting enough royalties from American sales. Of
> > course, I told my wife about this and she said, "Oh, didn't you know?
> > Yes, Dickens was a first-class S.O.B."
>
> I'm not sure that's entirely fair, but a lot of
> 19th century English authors were most vexed by
> American copyright protection (or lack thereof).
> Kipling even wrote a poem about it. Interestingly,
> for all his strange habits and attitudes stranger
> still, Rudyard is said to have been a very nice
> man, if highly eccentric. Of course he is of no
> particular school I am aware of, other than that
> of hard knocks and big words ;-)
>
> I also heard some good things about Colley Cibber
> (Actually I heard they made him poet laureate for
> being such a dear man, since he couldn't actually
> write for sixpence)
>
> Giano