Harriet Gets Glam

October 19th, 2006 at 09:17pm cicada

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As a Dorothy Sayers fan, I’m flat out horrified by this vintage cover art for Strong Poison. (Amazon)

Unless I’m mistaken, it appears the seductive blonde in the painted-on dress is meant to be Harriet Vane. (Harriet was a paragon of intelligence, independence and wit, an Oxford graduate, and a most “decided-looking brunette.”)

If the artist had to vamp her into a pulp starlet, couldn’t he at least have let her keep her natural hair color? Grrrr.

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