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From: The Spectator
Date: 19980124
Author:Keates, Jonathan

A whole year has slipped past without this column having tipped so much as a nod in the direction of distinguished literary anniversaries. `Books in general', I fear, disgraced itself throughout 1997 by entirely ignoring the births of Mary Shelley, Enid Blyton and Richard Savage, the Augustan poete maudit who achieved posthumous fame through a biographical essay by Dr Johnson. The deaths of John Aubrey and Horace Walpole were wholly forgotten, as also (more suitably, since it was painful and extremely slow) that of Alphonse Daudet. A penchant for the recherche for which your columnist is ...

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