The head of the house, Mrs Lavender Botts, has a distressing habit of writing books and talking a good deal about them. Her works were not novels. I am a broadminded man and can tolerate female novelists, but Mrs Botts gave English literature a bad name by turning out those unpleasant whimsical things to which women of her type are so addicted. My Chums the Pixies was one of her titles, How to Talk to the Flowers another, and Many of My Best Friends Are Field Mice a third. The rumor had got about that she was contemplating a fourth volume on the subject of elves.
- P.G. Wodehouse, "Joy Bells for Walter," p.153 in A Few Quick Ones
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