Lovely photo!

It's this book: http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=574163628&#...

A friend here (Australia) mentioned the author to me - June Boland. I think she must have been an Australian writer, because there seems to be no trace of her in UK libraries. She also appears to have written a tonne of wonderful sounding books that I am sure I would love, but I don't even know where or how I would get my hands on them.

I've ordered one more affordable one - Kirsty at the Manse - to see if I like her. I'll probably borrow my friend's Snow and ask if she has others.

Then if I like that I might try signing up with libraries here.

There was some amazing guy who digitised masses of older books for Gutenberg, which is how I discovered some of my now-favourites, like Mrs George de Horne Vaizey. He used to list loads of writers on his site as well as bios, but nearly all the pages are gone (some are in Google Archive): http://www.athelstane.co.uk

I would love to contact him but there's no email, to find out if he's doing any more female authors. Some of these authors are literally going to be wiped from memory, and they often wrote dozens of lovely books.

See this author which I found: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amélie_Claire_Leroy - I created the Wikipedia page for her, and that is all the info I have been able to find out about her. She also hasn't been digitised sadly, except for one or two works.

Anyway that went on a bit, sorry, but I feel so passionate about these former writers and all their work being so inaccessible and potentially always so.