This is the second book I have chosen to read in my quest to understand the academic mystery genre. The feminist author Amanda Cross, pseudonym for Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, is considered to have dominated this genre. She published this book in 1964. For more information on her, you can read the obituary about her at http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,1073806,00.html.
She committed suicide on October 9, 2003 claiming to be "at the end of [her] sixties 'half in love with easeful death'." This seems odd to me…how about anyone else? Is there another story? Through all my research, I have yet to find another reason for her suicide, but perhaps from reading her book, I’ll be able to make an assumption since it involves death and a female English professor (which she herself was).
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This sounds interesting. I'm curious to see what elements this book will contain that we may be able to connect to the last book you read.
I know it's off the topic of your main question, but I like how your books contain elements of feminist thought.
Wow, I didn't know she died! How did I miss that? Aging is a thread that runs through the books (if you continue reading as the character ages, you'll see it)...I can't imagine Heilbrun wanting to be dependent or incapacitated (to be honest, it's a fear of mine - to lose control of my own life), but I also can't imagine being healthy and killing myself...
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