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Originally Posted by astrangerhere
I will third. If my mom which is 99 cents doesn't win, I'd love a freebie! I haven't read Brown in years, and Chesterton was a miserable mysoginist, but I do enjoy a vintage mystery.l
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Having read a fair amount of his stuff I wouldn't say he disliked women or held them in contempt. He was, however, a Victorian believer in woman's place being in the home shielded from as much nastiness as possible.
(sexist, yes; misogynist, no; miserable, as little as humanly possible)