One of the odd questions I often got when writing about E. A. Wallis Budge was, "Are you for or against Budge?" This question always left...

I wrote Wallis Budge: Magic and Mummies in London and Cairo, in my own time, since I was not an academic and writing books was not part...

For many years, beginning when I was a teenager, I loved to read Victorian novels. I especially liked long and sprawling works in which...