you are completely right, of course ~ and earlier this evening i was thinking about how much one of the things that drove me to write was not being able to find the sort of things i would like to read ~ so i should be grateful to have found them now! and carry on creating my own to fill in whatever may not have been covered in that era (because, frank as mitchell is sometimes, at the turn of the century there's still a lot that wasn't appropriate to put into a book!).

thank you for your encouragement!

: D