#josephine tey
‘About the murder–the murder of those two boys–isn’t it odd that no one talks of it?’
‘How do you mean: no one talks of it?’
'These last three days I’ve been going through contemporary papers: letters and what not. And no one mentions them at all.’
Dominic Mancini: Am I a joke to you?
(did you ever know of anyone who was dragged out of sanctuary? The man who did that would be excommunicated–and Richard was a very good son of Holy Church)
Edmund Beaufort: Am I a joke to you?
'Where would one have to go to meet a woman who became matey with the murderer of her two boys?’
Richard Grey: Am I a joke to you?
SLYTHERIN: “Nothing in this world came out of satisfaction. Except the human race.” –Josephine Tey (Brat Farrar)
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I’ve just started reading Josephine Tey’s novel Miss Pym Disposes and I’m only three pages in, but I’m just chortling with glee. So far we’ve learned that Miss Pym:
*refuses to get up any earlier than 7.30am
*rolls her hair every night against the wishes of “her weaker self” and wakes up feeling smug enough about it to sleep in a little longer (truly a woman after my own heart)
*quit teaching after the death of a parent and bought herself a nice little flat, in which she lives on the small but steady income of her investments (100% something I would do if I were left a legacy)
*rage read all 37 (!) existent psychology books published (!!) at the time (book was published in 1948) and was so incensed by them that she wrote her own in rebuttal
*accidentally sent a page of the manuscript to a publisher by means of writing a persnickety complaint about the neighbor’s noise on the back of one of the pages
*was so astonished by becoming a Bestselling Author that she “went out and had three cups of black coffee and sat in the [Regents] Park looking straight in front of her for the rest of the morning”.
I’m dying. I’m about to teleport into this book and propose Boston Marriage to this woman. Let’s see what mischief she gets up to, eh?
I’m reading my first Josephine Tey novel, A Shilling for Candles, and I have a whole list of things to do today that are not getting done because I can’t put the damn thing down.
@oldshrewsburyian, I blame you for this entirely. Thank you.
