Later, from the 1980s onwards, she was praised as one of the best late twentieth-century novelists together with Iris Murdoch and Doris Lessing, and--especially after her death--a perfect
continuator of the great tradition landmarked by Jane Austen, the Brontes, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf.
Therein lies a fact of author life: "Only the very top authors get promotional help," says Bob Goldsborough, a veteran journalist and, since the 1980s, the
continuator author of the long-popular Nero Wolfe mystery series begun in 1934 by Rex Stout.
Most publications still refer to Howe and the
continuator of his concept Brabham (2008).
Thus, while Napoleon is often credited with creating this style of warfare, for the great Prussian theorist Carl von Clausewitz, Napoleon was merely the
continuator of a process really begun by Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg.
The second generation in a family business: an agent of change or
continuator of family tradition?
First, while Lydgate was clearly not shy when it came to asserting his authorship--indeed, he names himself in more texts than any other Middle English writer (3)--I am keen to register that it is the
continuator of the Secrees, not Lydgate himself, who identifies Lydgate as the author of the text's opening section.
The
continuator of this idea was Menniger who, in his Man against Himself, starting from ideas of pulsions, saw a crime in the suicide, namely, the wish to kill is reversed and turned through external conjunctures against one's own person.
The land, nature itself, takes revenge on the elder Morgan when his son, his
continuator, is drowned in a river swollen by the rain that is so characteristic of the glen.