[2026] Miss Mole, by E. H. Young

[Hendrik Kaiber]

I finished proofreading Miss Mole, and am now trying to pick a cover.

The book involves a 40 year old woman (the titular character), and finding a painting of a woman of this age isn't as easy as it seems, most painting being of clearly younger or older woman.

I think there are two possible portraits in the Artworks database: A Gentlewoman and The Grey Bodice. The clothes and age of the models aren't quite of the time period of the book (1930) but I think they can work. I prefer The Grey Bodice. What do you think?

--Hendrik

[David]

I feel your pain.

You don't give us any physical description, so I don't know whether this CC0 of a ~40ish year old woman would work...
https://www.si.edu/object/peggy-bacon:npg_NPG.2019.5

...but it might? FWIW!

D.

[Alex Cabal]

I think Grey Bodice works, I'll assign it.

On 10/21/25 11:38 AM, Hendrik Kaiber wrote:
> I finished proofreading /Miss Mole/, and am now trying to pick a cover.

>
> The book involves a 40 year old woman (the titular character), and
> finding a painting of a woman of this age isn't as easy as it seems,
> most painting being of clearly younger or older woman.
>
> I think there are two possible portraits in the Artworks database: A

> Gentlewoman <https://standardebooks.org/artworks/julian-alden-weir/a-
> gentlewoman> and The Grey Bodice <https://standardebooks.org/artworks/
> julian-alden-weir/the-grey-bodice>. The clothes and age of the models

> aren't quite of the time period of the book (1930) but I think they can
> work. I prefer The Grey Bodice. What do you think?
>
> --Hendrik
>

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[Hendrik Kaiber]

I realized that I don't actually know how to get the subjects from LoC. Here's the record, but I don't how to procede now. I can't find anything related to the LC classification. What do you think I'm doing wrong?

--Hendrik

[Emma Sweeney]

Here is a list of subjects for Miss Mole by E. H. Young. I search for the author's Library of Congress Names Database page and  click on each appearance of Miss Mole under the Contributor of Works list.

Emma

[David]

I didn't know about the "works" listing, so thanks for sharing that one, Emma!

It might also take combining the LCSH headings found in resource with the LoC Subject Heading search to get all the required metadata info. It seems some go "defunct", so for example the LCSH search doesn't have any hits for `Governesses--England--Fiction`, but look up just `Governesses`, and it does find `Governesses--Fiction` which (I think!) would be one appropriate entry for _Miss Mole_.

(If I'm missing something here, ... do tell!)

David / Fife, UK

On Saturday, 25 October 2025 at 04:39:19 UTC+1 Emma Sweeney wrote:

Here is a list of subjects for Miss Mole by E. H. Young. I search for the author's Library of Congress Names Database page and  click on each appearance of Miss Mole under the Contributor of Works list.

Emma

[Anthony J. Bentley]

It’s not that headings go defunct (although they do, occasionally), it’s that LoC does not strictly define all possible headings. LCSH headings are intentionally somewhat freeform and, as you see, it’s common for books to be catalogued under new subject combinations that have not been formally defined. That’s why the SE manual allows for LCSH headings to have IDs marked “Unknown.”

[Hendrik Kaiber]

Thanks Emma, I think I got now.

--Hendrik