Portal:Literature/Did you know/27


 * ... that one scholar suggests Louisa May Alcott wrote the sensationalist novella Behind a Mask to subvert the fantasy of the perfect "little woman"?
 * ... that the works of Georgette Heyer include her first novel The Black Moth (1921), which she based on a story she wrote for her haemophiliac younger brother?
 * ... that British horror novelist Simon Clark wrote a sequel to John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids?
 * ... that Cut Like Wound is Indian novelist Anita Nair's first work of detective fiction?
 * ... that some of the most popular nautical fiction works, including those about Horatio Hornblower and Jack Aubrey, were based upon the real adventures of the "sea wolf" – Lord Cochrane?