In June 2018, in preparation for writing this chapter, I undertook two distinct searches. The first was of Oxford college and faculty libraries (around 40 in all), using the search tool SOLO (Search Oxford Libraries Online). The second, of local charity shops around Oxford, I undertook on foot. In both I was looking for copies of historical novels by British women writers of the mid-twentieth century – specifically those of Norah Lofts, D. K. Broster, Eleanor Hibbert (who wrote as both Jean Plaidy and Victoria Holt), Margaret Irwin, Naomi Mitchison, Mary Renault, Rose Macaulay, Margaret Kennedy, Hilda Reid, H. F. M. Prescott, Dorothy Dunnett and Georgette Heyer. My online searches yielded little: a few titles from Renault, Macaulay, Mitchison, Kennedy, Reid and Prescott; one from Irwin; nothing at all by Lofts, Hibbert or Heyer.