Nov 262009
May be boring as hell, but at least it’s better than the previous attempt. Em changed the tagline, too. =] I’ll probably change the font colour. I don’t know. I’m feeling cranky about the cover.
May be boring as hell, but at least it’s better than the previous attempt. Em changed the tagline, too. =] I’ll probably change the font colour. I don’t know. I’m feeling cranky about the cover.
Yes, this one is saying ‘Moors’ but there’s not a huge amount of ‘Terror’.
I’m rather puzzled because I can’t find any record anywhere of a book titled “The Lady of the Moor” and written by Beatrice Chase. I have found details in the British Library’s catalogue of
* a 1975 booklet titled ‘Beatrice Chase, My Lady of the Moor’ by Christina Green.
* John Oxenham’s ‘My Lady of the Moor’ (1916).
* ‘The Mysterious Lady of the Moor’ (1994) and described elsewhere as ‘A non fiction book by Judy Chard‘.
In one of Beatrice Chase’s books it’s explained in an advert on page 6 that ‘John Oxenham once made her the theme of his romance “My Lady of the Moor”.’
This was also mentioned in Punch (Vol. 150, March 15, 1916):
“It is not often,” says a writer of what is called “Literary Intelligence,” “that a novelist adopts a living fellow-worker as the central figure of his story. This is, however, the case with My Lady of the Moor, which Messrs. Longmans will shortly publish for Mr. John Oxenham. While wandering on Dartmoor he stumbled into a living actual romance, of which Miss Beatrice Chase, author of several popular books about Dartmoor, was the centre. This book tells the tale, which is named after Miss Chase, My Lady of the Moor, and it has of course been written with her full consent and approval.”
So all of this is making me rather curious as to what your friend has actually got. Was it written by Beatrice Chase, or is it about her? And is it even a horror story?
omg! I re-read her notes and it seems you’re right. I got the title wrong. It’s The Ghost of the Moor. I mistook TLOTM as the main title. If I read it right TYLOTM is supposed to go under her name as her nickname, which the locals refer her as? Hm. I’ll have to call her about this.
From what I understand, it’s not a horror story, but a gothic tale with a touch of the supernatural.
Either way thanks for saving my face on this one. Hm, I think I’ll have to ask her to type or email her notes from now on. How funny. And embarrassing!
So is it the kind of Gothic that needs to have a cover of the terrified-woman-in-a-nightgown-running-from-a-mansion-which-has-a-light-shining-from-only-one-window variety?