A Bluestocking Knits

Today’s Booking Through Thursday questions were suggested by Cate.

1. Are you currently collecting any authors? Why? "Actively collecting," no — "passively collecting," I suppose so!  If I ever see a D.E. Stevenson novel at a bookshop, I’d grab it, but I don’t usually buy a book just because it’s written by a certain author.  I used to be a lot more aquisitive, in the days when I worked full-time and lived with my parents (ah, disposable incomes!), but now I have to be a lot more selective.
2. Do you have all of their books? If not, why not?  I don’t think I have all of any author’s books, if you count lesser-known works like Love and Freindship.  I do have all of Jane Austen’s major novels (some in multiple editions) as well as a few biographies and critical books — I have all of Shakespeare’s plays, also in various editions — I have most of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books, including some of the lesser-known journals — I have most of Eva Ibbotson’s adult novels (I mean novels for adults, not adult novels, of course!), but none of her children’s books.  I think that the only set I am currently buying is Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin novels — I’m up to fourteen out of twenty (or twenty-one, depending on whose list you use).  No, wait, I do have all of Nigella Lawson‘s books — does that count?!
3. Did you buy all the books in the collection at the same time, or did you buy a book here, a book there? I do have the complete set of Virginia Woolf’s diaries and letters, which I accumulated over time, as I could afford them — some in the Harcourt, Brace American editions and some in the Hogarth English editions (lugged happily home in my suitcase).
4. Have you read the whole collection? If not, why not? I’ve read all of the Woolfs, certainly, and all of the D.E. Stevensons I’ve been able to find (in libraries and bookstores).