YMMV / Dr. Thorndyke

• Aluminum Christmas Trees: In Mr. Pottermack's Oversight, a character is able to obtain human remains for a substitution by buying an Egyptian mummy at auction with no paper trail, which was apparently perfectly possible in the 1930s.
• Values Dissonance and Values Resonance:
  • Freeman had conservative views even for his time on many matters (particularly social class) but also tended to depict black characters more positively than many contemporary authors, largely due to his past in West Africa.
  • In a peculiar example, he tended to combine stated Stay in the Kitchen views of women with writing stronger female characters than some modern authors!

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