Now that you say that, I remember, about Sutcliff's rheumatoid fever. I wonder if there's a bio of her around? Apart from the autobiography, though I'd be very interested to read that, too. I enjoy biographies and autobiographies of writers... I have one of Mary Renault, which is fascinating... and Beverly Cleary, as well. Now I want to look up Mitchison, as she sounds amazing... out of print isn't impossible to find, necessarily. But expensive. Sigh. That Alberta Wilson Constant? She's out of print, too. It took me AGES to even come up with one of her titles to lead to her name, yesterday. But she's American.