Comments on: International Women’s Day: Mona Caird http://blog.oup.com/2011/03/caird/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:22:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Maura Dunst http://blog.oup.com/2011/03/caird/#comment-235824 Maura Dunst Sun, 30 Oct 2011 18:54:27 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=14352#comment-235824 I believe Lady Hetty was written by John Service. It's too bad that so little is known about Caird's life, but at least we know a bit about this extraordinary woman! I believe Lady Hetty was written by John Service. It’s too bad that so little is known about Caird’s life, but at least we know a bit about this extraordinary woman!

]]> By: Tracey S. Rosenberg http://blog.oup.com/2011/03/caird/#comment-209621 Tracey S. Rosenberg Tue, 08 Mar 2011 13:02:27 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=14352#comment-209621 Thanks for helping to bring Caird to a wider audience! It's a shame that the entry is riddled with basic errors - both the title (Wing, not Wings) and the protagonist's name (Viola, not Victoria) of The Wing of Azrael, for instance. Also, Caird didn't write Lady Hetty; I forget who did, but I remember that when I was tracking down the author, his own entry in the ODNB correctly attributes this. Still, this is perhaps an endemic problem with writers who didn't earn full biographical treatments in their own time, and doubly so for women. Sarah Grand was lucky enough to have a Boswell, but so many fell through the cracks. The ODNB is definitely a step forward. Thanks for helping to bring Caird to a wider audience!

It’s a shame that the entry is riddled with basic errors – both the title (Wing, not Wings) and the protagonist’s name (Viola, not Victoria) of The Wing of Azrael, for instance. Also, Caird didn’t write Lady Hetty; I forget who did, but I remember that when I was tracking down the author, his own entry in the ODNB correctly attributes this.

Still, this is perhaps an endemic problem with writers who didn’t earn full biographical treatments in their own time, and doubly so for women. Sarah Grand was lucky enough to have a Boswell, but so many fell through the cracks. The ODNB is definitely a step forward.

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