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?