Mr. Underwood in Charlotte Yonge's The Pillars of the House has
consumption, and dies a pious death early in the book, but not
before giving his wife 13 children in 16 years, which evidently
doesn't do very much for *her* physical or mental health.
The father in Mary Mapes Dodge's Hans Brinker,
I also love the permeability of GO. And I think it's very important
to be able to discuss politics and religion, as these are really central
to much of the literature that we discuss. It would be difficult to
discuss Pullman, C.S. Lewis, Antonia Forest, or most 19th-century
authors without some
Not Gritty Realism, I'll admit; but I still think that the idea of
the TV personality who broadcasts his message of longing for children
and then gets more than he bargains for is an interesting one!
The children are interesting personalities, and Thomas' misunderstanding
about the hospital
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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
In fairness to the poster of the Pullman article: Pullman is on-topic,
as he is an influential children's writer, so the article is of
interest to us. We have had discussions of Pullman before, and by
no means all of us agree with his views!
I disagree with most of Antonia Forest's political and
I believe that in many urban areas in the early 20th century, and later
in some places, something like 80 to 90% of people had TB infections,
but only a minority developed long-term or fatal illness.
My mother had lung X-rays as an adult which indicated that she had
probably had TB as a child,
