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azurelunatic) wrote2002-03-16 11:43 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2002-03-16 11:43 pm
Anne Cordelia (echoes)
This is perhaps only of interest to those who read both Lois McMaster Bujold and L.M. Montgomery.
Does anyone else see echoes of Anne Shirley Blythe in Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan?
Two tall, slender, self-possessed, redheaded women, who, when mature, are possessed of a cool and loving nature. Maternal as hell, of course. Brave, but Anne was required to take a far less active form of bravery. Both able to sail through scenes of domestic terror calmly.
Anne had desired the name Cordelia as a child. Gods alone know what Cordelia had wanted her name to be.
...I just find the similarities delightful, and it's no wonder I'd immediately latch on to the series by Bujold, having grown up reading L.M. Montgomery.
Does anyone else see echoes of Anne Shirley Blythe in Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan?
Two tall, slender, self-possessed, redheaded women, who, when mature, are possessed of a cool and loving nature. Maternal as hell, of course. Brave, but Anne was required to take a far less active form of bravery. Both able to sail through scenes of domestic terror calmly.
Anne had desired the name Cordelia as a child. Gods alone know what Cordelia had wanted her name to be.
...I just find the similarities delightful, and it's no wonder I'd immediately latch on to the series by Bujold, having grown up reading L.M. Montgomery.
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Hmm. I had not been aware of any books about writing by her... but now that I am, I shall delightfully go and investigate!
I also recommend her most recent non-Miles effort, The Curse of Chalion, which ... well, I was delighted and grinned all the way through.
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...I do delight in the Worst Possible Thing method for character-driven novel plotting.