Putting together a compilation of short stories by Catherine Louisa Pirkis (of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective fame) and I really love this archaeology part.
I’ve already transcribed 2–3 shorts from 1870s magazine scans that aren’t on her Wikipedia page. But there’s a novella called “Trooping with Crows” with no public scans available. Luckily you can pay British Library to digitise books from their collection, so #standardEbooks will have the first publication since 1880 (for free of course).
Scans received from the British Library, and uploaded to archive.org: https://archive.org/details/12641-cc-26-001
Now to transcribe and markup.
…and released! https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/catherine-louisa-pirkis/short-fiction
No idea when it was that anyone last read “Trooping with Crows” but it must have been years if not decades. It turned out to be a novella about a strong young Victorian woman falling into an unsuitable relationship despite the best efforts of her aunts. Fairly typical Pirkis fare but well written and paced, and with a selection of dogs as per usual.
Robin Whittleton
Olle