Mick Mercer
THE OLD LADY WHO INVENTED GOTH is the fictional tale of the mighty Hermione M. Lee, a woman born into the wrong era who could only dream of what we now enjoy, but long before we got to enjoy it she was pushing for it to happen, in her own disgraceful way. She flourishes in the twenties and thirties, performs valiant deeds through the forties, and cosies up to the youth cults which germinate in the fifties and then spread through the sixties and seventies, mocking all and sundry, wielding a contemptuous vocal scythe through any who did not appreciate what she knew was intrinsically preferable. A champion of darkness, and yet a vanquisher of gloom, Hermione M. Lee is a Gothic blueprint in action, living a life steeped in sin and intrigue, but justifiably so.
The Old Lady Who Invented Goth (American Edition)