Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 SMI; site sun.uucp Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!sun!guy From: guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: net.books Subject: Re: Sherlock Holmes Pastiches Message-ID: <2111@sun.uucp> Date: Thu, 11-Apr-85 01:32:24 EST Article-I.D.: sun.2111 Posted: Thu Apr 11 01:32:24 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Apr-85 04:48:08 EST References: <4680@ucla-cs.ARPA> Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Lines: 10 > Not content to give us Sherlock Holmes and Karl Marx, he also offers up ... > and Beatrix Potter (Beatrix Potter? One of the more interesting revelations > of this book is that the author of "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" was once a > socialist.) No, I suspect he meant *Beatrice* Potter (Webb), who was a Fabian socialist (and who married Sidney Webb, another Fabian). Guy Harris sun!guy