Teaching Lymond...

[fajrdrako]

This interesting article turned up on one of my lists today, about a teacher named Marjorie Leithead who discovered Francis Crawford and used him as a teaching aid:
Been There, Dunnett. I wonder: is her name really pronounced "Lighthead"?

"I bribed my wild boys in second year to stop blethering and do some work with promised tales of Lymond in France. They were swept along with the swash and buckle of it all, the back-stabbing and the plotting...." And the bisexual promiscuity? Did she include that part?

She must really have some personality as a teacher to get the 'wild boys' to listen to extracts of historical fiction!

I did like (and relate to) Marjorie Leithead's ending: "In discovering the Lymond Chronicles I knew I was going down a road thousands of others had gone down before me, but somehow it felt as if the secret was mine alone, that I was the only one to understand Lymond's complex relationships.... None of my reading since has brought anything like the feeling of joy and frustration, the triumph and the awe I felt at my romp through Europe with Lymond. I am bereft now I've come to the end of the journey, but inspired because I have."