Obliterated fiction
- *looks through GoogleBooks links* Time to start reading another Catholic novel, I think. Hmmm...Let's say Preston Hall.
- Hey, this is a sequel to a satirical novella called Stumpingford. Surely I should read that first?
- I will now look for Stumpingford.
- OK, I've found the author in the Wellesley Index (Daniel Parsons, apparently the husband of another Catholic novelist, Gertrude Parsons), but I haven't found Stumpingford.
- Maybe it was serialized in The Rambler, like Preston Hall?
- ...No.
- Perhaps a print copy is floating around the universe somewhere? I'll check WorldCat.
- WorldCat says the only copy is owned by the British Library. I would find that out several months after I left.
- Maybe the BL has digitized it.
- Here's the catalog ent--oh, for crying out loud, the shelfmark has a "D" prefix (translation: destroyed during the Blitz).
- ...So, does anyone happen to have a random copy of Stumpingford just, you know, lying about? In an attic, say?