Leonard Merrick: A Forgotten Novelist's Novelist recovers a writer admired by (among others) H.G. Wells, G.K. Chesterton, Virginia Woolf, and George Orwell, before his sudden disappearance from literary memory. Baker and Shumaker offer a short-but-comprehensive survey of Merrick's career, reputation and works, which included Mr. Bazalgette's Agent (1888), featuring a pioneer female detective, and The Quaint Companion (1903), notable for its innovative treatment of race and disability.
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