I am currently procrastinating on the fic I want to be writing by writing a different fic instead. It's progress, I suppose!
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theseatheseatheopensea has been doing some great work finding obscure D. K. Broster-related stuff on the internet, including these two pictures of her! (The first is poor quality and very shadowy and mysterious as a result, the second—she's on the right in the top middle picture—is much better). Another great find is the short story 'Fils d'Émigré', which appears to be the original form of Sir Isumbras at the Ford, published five years before the final version. It's a very interesting insight into the writing process! The story isn't at all the condensed proto-Sir Isumbras I imagined upon hearing that it started out as a short story, but an episode from the middle of the book in—excepting a few minor changes—pretty much the same form that it appears in as chapter 28 of the eventual novel. There's no La Vireville or Raymonde, and the wider context of the plot is almost totally absent. I find the implication that Broster started out with this little, isolated story and then built up a wider plot around it really fascinating.
Anyway:
theseatheseatheopensea has been doing some great work finding obscure D. K. Broster-related stuff on the internet, including these two pictures of her! (The first is poor quality and very shadowy and mysterious as a result, the second—she's on the right in the top middle picture—is much better). Another great find is the short story 'Fils d'Émigré', which appears to be the original form of Sir Isumbras at the Ford, published five years before the final version. It's a very interesting insight into the writing process! The story isn't at all the condensed proto-Sir Isumbras I imagined upon hearing that it started out as a short story, but an episode from the middle of the book in—excepting a few minor changes—pretty much the same form that it appears in as chapter 28 of the eventual novel. There's no La Vireville or Raymonde, and the wider context of the plot is almost totally absent. I find the implication that Broster started out with this little, isolated story and then built up a wider plot around it really fascinating.
