C. S. Forrester (1899-1966). BtVS Intertext/Allusion.
In "The Dark Age" we find the following dialogue between Rupert Giles and Jenny Calendar (transcribed by Alexander Thompson):
Jenny: Oh! Thank you so much for loaning me the Forrester book. It's wonderful!
Giles: Well, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Jenny: Yeah, it was so romantic, so evocative.
Giles: That edition was my father's. I, I, I must've read it . . . twenty times.
Jenny: Yeah, y'know how you have to, to dog-ear your favorite pages so you can go back to them?
Giles: Uh, uh, uh, what?
Jenny: Well, I mean, I-I practically had to fold back every single
page. So finally I just, I just started underlining all the pages I
really wanted to discuss.
Giles: U-u-underlined...?
Jenny: But then, of course, I spilled coffee all over it, I can't even read it...
Giles: (can't believe it) It's a first edition!
Jenny: I'm lying, Rupert. (smiles) The book's fine. (holds it up) I just love to see you squirm. (hands him the book)
Giles: (smiles in relief) Yes, well, I, uh... trust I gave good . . . squirm.
Jenny: Did anyone ever tell you you're kind of a fuddy-duddy?
Giles: Nobody ever seems to tell me anything else.
Jenny: Did anyone ever tell you you're kind of a sexy fuddy-duddy?
Giles: Well, no. Actually that, that part usually gets left out. (smiles) I c-can't imagine why.
"Cecil Scott Forrester was born on 27th August, 1899 in Cairo, Egypt. He was educated in England at Alleyn's School and Dulwich College, at neither of which, he said, he made any particular impression except as an extremely naughty boy. He left Dulwich College and attempted to take up medicine but soon found that his real vocation was storytelling and writing. Always an enthusiastic reader as a child (he used to devour complete encyclopedias) he used his extensive and eclectic knowledge to make his stories very readable and popular. He is possibly most famous for the Hornblower series of novels which intersperse tales of great human understanding with a high level of technical expertise - even though he was never in the navy." [from the Internet Movie Data Base]