Catherine Nixey

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366 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 16 Jul

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The Intelligence from The Economist · Pulp fiction v the classics: summer reading · 25 May 2026 podcast

I mean, do you think she is?

So it is outrageously unfeminist.

I was reading one of her earlier novels, the the Predate the Ruther Chronicles, and there's a point where a girl says to her father, Who is Florence Nightingale?

And her father says, a lesbian.

I mean, it's full of stuff like that.

You know, you can spot feminists because they don't shave their legs, and you can

Spot socialists because they drink your champagne.

I mean, she's she's sort of villainous, but I th that's part of if you're gonna enter into that world, that's part of the fun.

It's a really good point.

I mean, P.

James said that Pride and Prejudice is Mills and Boone written by a genius.

But I don't think we should throw away that written by a genius, but I think that's quite important.

I mean, you can read Pride and Prejudice.

You were saying sort of what happens.

I mean, fundamentally, nothing happens in all of my favorite books.

They're all almost all universally characterized by nothing happening.

But it's how it happens.

It doesn't happen really well, and it happens really carefully.

They've

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