I agree that Grandma Dowdel is a hero whose time has come (and gone, and come again, and maybe never really left at all).
IIRC 1893 might have been just ahead of a major fad in North American for all things Japanese, but not too far ahead. Winnifred Eaton's first novel "Miss Nume of Japan" (under the not-actually-Japanese pen name Onoto Watanna) came out in 1899.
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Date: 2020-06-05 03:34 pm (UTC)IIRC 1893 might have been just ahead of a major fad in North American for all things Japanese, but not too far ahead. Winnifred Eaton's first novel "Miss Nume of Japan" (under the not-actually-Japanese pen name Onoto Watanna) came out in 1899.
I love those "other books we sell" lists. <3