Re: [GO] BD:Violets: Drains and sanitation

een opened. The first example would be late nineteenth century, the second 1950s. Natasha wrote Or, more likely, one wandering around the house opening windows, and the other quietly closing them. -- Barbara Dryden -- Girlsown mailing list [EMAIL PROT

Re: [GO] Re: Finding Neverland

stic, handsome and sensitive as ever! -- Barbara Dryden -- Girlsown mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] For self-administration and access to archives see http://home.it.net.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/girlsown For FAQs see http://www.club-web.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/girl

Re: [GO] BD Violets The Sick Mother

if people could supply some examples here. I'm afraid my memory sometimes supplies a quote but not the book it's in. -- Barbara Dryden -- Girlsown mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] For self-administration and access to archives see http://home.it.net.au

Re: [GO] My good news OT

papers saying that books are just about the dirtiest old microbe traps you could possibly have in the house. -- Barbara Dryden -- Girlsown mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] For self-administration and access to archives see http://home.it.net.au/cgi-bin

Re: [GO] WSVS Topic 4: Part I

g from Joey & Co's reaction to the Elsie books, they must have been somewhat outside the usual story books read by schoolgirls in the 20s/30s, but was that just a factor of time - that is, were similar stories appearing in the UK at the same time as, s

Re: [GO] No boats on Bannermere

t fun. -- Barbara Dryden -- Girlsown mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] For self-administration and access to archives see http://home.it.net.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/girlsown For FAQs see http://www.club-web.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/girlsown/faq-0.htm

[GO] Violets BD: Sick mothers in GO fiction part 2

girls love their mothers, however inadequate they may be, and that the fear of loss of a parent is one of childhood’s greatest dreads. Illness will therefore always be a staple plot tool for writers who want to stir the reader’s emotions. -- Barbara Dryden

[GO] Violets BD: Sick mothers in GO fiction part 1

ard work, loyalty and true family happiness. -- Barbara Dryden -- Girlsown mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] For self-administration and access to archives see http://home.it.net.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/girlsown For FAQs see http://www.club-web.pwp.blueyond

Re: [GO] Now Trease and *his* politics

set in the seventeenth century, his heroes are always on the side of Parliament / Puritans, rather than King / Cavaliers, but with sympathetic characters from both sides, usually). -- Barbara Dryden -- Girlsown mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] For self-administration and

[GO] Was but no longer is Pullman, etc.

hough undoubtedly conservative in many ways, carried a strongly anti-war message. Can anyone else think of other examples - perhaps including some from other religions? -- Barbara Dryden -- Girlsown mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] For self-administration and access

Re: [GO] BD; WSVS; Haverfield

that writers writing later in the twentieth century were less likely to use illness as a plot device than earlier writers, but this is a good illustration of it in the work of one author. -- Barbara Dryden -- Girlsown mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

[GO] BD Violets Mumps etc.

sease, probably because they were too busy nursing family members at the time. -- Barbara Dryden -- Girlsown mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] For self-administration and access to archives see http://home.it.net.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/girlsown For FAQs see

Re: [GO] No Boats on Bannermere

nd of book, whereas Trease was much more ambitious in trying his hand at a variety of types and settings, and also trying to introduce a world-view that was almost unrepresented in fiction for children at the time - Ransome didn't challenge any prevailing worl

Re: [GO] evacuations

Not so funny, though, is she. Fen wrote Or indeed EBD, who isn't exactly egalitarian in her view of evacuees. -- Barbara Dryden -- Girlsown mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] For self-administration and access to archives see http://home.it.net.au/cg

Re: [GO] Noel Streatfeild; was Mrs Marlow

Wailed all week, and I am not getting with it at all. Never read it before. Why don't you like it? -- Barbara Dryden -- Girlsown mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] For self-administration and access to archives see http://home.it.net.au/cgi-bin/mailman/

[GO] No Boats on Bannermere

ldren. In fact, Arthur Ransome had got there years before Trease even started writing. -- Barbara Dryden -- Girlsown mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] For self-administration and access to archives see http://home.it.net.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/girlsown For