Happy birthday, Victoria Glendinning; Ngaio Marsh.

Victoria Glendinning, superb biographer of Edith Sitwell, Vita Sackville-West, Rebecca West, and Leonard Woolf, was born today in Yorkshire in 1937.

And Roderick Alleyn creator Dame Edith Ngaio Marsh was born today in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1895.