00:00But apparently in this letter White explains that it was a jolly childhood and that family had Welsh nursemaids whose lurid stories were probably excellent training for a feature thriller writer.
00:11She also says I was brought up with Little Women, Melbourne House and a bound copy of Harper's Young People.
00:18That's all we know about a literary influence from her own tongue.
00:22But when you read the novels, there's quite a long list here but there's even more than what I'm listing here.
00:29But she references Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, Dante, The Divine Comedy, Robert Brown in Plimes, Swinburne, Edith Sickwell, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Dickens.
00:41She was extremely well read and she really does know how to take a reference and tweak it to her own advantage within the novels.
