Author: M. C. Beaton

Cites

• Alan Bennett (1)
  • IN: Snobbery with Violence (2003) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Sapper, Buchan, Donford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery with Violence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
    FROM: Forty Years On, (1968), Play, UK
• Mary Howitt (1)
  • IN: Death of a Perfect Wife (1989) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "Will you walk into my parlour?" said a spider to a fly: "'Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy."
    FROM: "The Spider and the Fly", (1829), Poem, UK
• Sir Walter A. Raleigh (1)
  • IN: Death of a Nurse (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wish I liked the way it talks; And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!
    FROM: Wishes of an Elderly Man Wished at a Garden Party, June 1914, (1923), Poem, UK