:D Oh, that sounds good! I hope you do manage to find those books, and that they're good (and perhaps focus on these characters a bit more than The Ladies of Lyndon...)

I saw that!—I've not read A Noble Life, and both it in general and that critical edition look very interesting. Disability is one of Craik's favourite topics—amongst the books I have read it's also prominent in Olive and turns up briefly but significantly in Agatha's Husband.