In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Barbara Dryden <> > >And also a representation - as you very rightly suggest - of maternal > >selflessness - Mum works herself to death? So inducing pangs of reader- > >guilt. > > Yes. I'd be glad if people could supply some examples here. I'm afraid my > memory sometimes supplies a quote but not the book it's in. > Enid Blyton is a bit given to that sort of thing. The mother's accident in "Those Dreadful Children" is used to guilt-trip the naughty children into reforming. Also the father's accident in "House at the Corner", and of course Gwen's father's illness in "Last Term at Malory Towers".
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