Comments on: A Small Meditation on Art, Commerce and Impermanence http://www.sfwa.org/2012/01/a-small-meditation-on-art-commerce-and-impermanence/ Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Tue, 14 May 2013 14:54:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Jonathan Helland http://www.sfwa.org/2012/01/a-small-meditation-on-art-commerce-and-impermanence/#comment-111267 Jonathan Helland Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:59:21 +0000 http://www.sfwa.org/?p=22125#comment-111267 For what it’s worth, the following were also published in 1912 –
_The Lost World_, Arthur Conan Doyle

_Tarzan of the Apes_, Edgar Rice Borroughs

_A Princess of Mars_, Edgar Rice Borroughs

_Riders of the Purple Sage_, Zane Grey

_Death in Venice_, Thomas Mann

]]> By: Elizabeth Moon http://www.sfwa.org/2012/01/a-small-meditation-on-art-commerce-and-impermanence/#comment-108557 Elizabeth Moon Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:50:09 +0000 http://www.sfwa.org/?p=22125#comment-108557 When I was a child, some of the Gene Stratton Porter books were still in print as children’s books (Michael O’Halleran, Freckles, Girl of the Limberlost, and Keeper of the Bees were ones I was given as birthday or Christmas presents.) Later I picked up more of her books–clearly not children’s books–in used book stores, and visited her home (a museum) the summer I worked in Ohio (we drove to Indiana for that.) I admit I’m probably in the minority, and I suspect by the ’50s, when I first read her books, she was considered a girls’ writer. The girls in her books were outdoors, unafraid, active (so were the boys, but for the time in which she wrote, the outdoors girl and woman were unusual.) She was not only an environmentalist, but a feminist: A Daughter of the Land is a raging indictment of the treatment of women in inheritance, land ownership, marriage, and employment.

Be that as it may, and agreeing with your argument…yes. Don’t worry about posterity.

]]> By: Mary http://www.sfwa.org/2012/01/a-small-meditation-on-art-commerce-and-impermanence/#comment-108517 Mary Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:41:02 +0000 http://www.sfwa.org/?p=22125#comment-108517 I may have read The Harvester. I certainly read enough of Gene Stratton-Porter when young and omnivorous.

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