Okay, everyone's convinced me that there *are* several examples of cancer
being used in children's books as TB was. But I *still* think there is a
difference, in that cancer in books for children is, on the examples quoted,
the *point* of the book - it is the *whole* plot, and not merely a plot
de
I'm not going to put spoilers because I don't think I'm giving away any of
the plot.
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From: "Barbara Dryden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I'm glad you partly enjoyed No Boats on Bannermere, Barbara!
>Then there are hits
> at the boarding school story, with Bill wondering why w
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From: "Dorian E. Gray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Of course, I don't think having the disease without noticing was a common
> thing, but people *did* recover from it even before medication (as they
> recovered from assorted other diseases).
I think large numbers of peopl
I wrote;
>But, personally, I do think Ransome is much more a
> "safe" kind of writer, in that he only wrote one kind of book,
To avoid confusion, I should say I mean he stuck to one kind of book in his
"different" or groundbreaking work for children (i.e. the Swallows and
Amazons books), not his
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>Any suggestions for next weekend please?
>Marguerite
There are two or three in Margaret's Buildings (or it may be St Margaret,
can't remember). Despite the name, it is actually a street, not just a
building, but it is a pedestrian zone. It
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From: "Kate Lambert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Illness, Accidents and Death in the works of E L Haverfield
>E L Haverfield's school stories were published between 1898 and 1933 [1]
>and her books, featuring a plethora of fatherless children,
>self-sacrificing saints, cari
In fairness, it does occasionally take a while for particular messages to
filter through to different servers, and they also don't come in order
always. I'm sure no-one is intentionally carrying on regardless.
Sally
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From: "Helen_A" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I have alre
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From: "Valerie Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I'm curious - I've only read the first 3 Bannermere books by him -
> did he come across as leftish earlier on?
Trease was considered very radical in his youth, and his first books were
very left wing, but he came to think of
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From: "Tig Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Having said all that, I do think Trease falls down horribly on the subject
> of girls. I wince every time Bill makes some patronising comment about
> girls' fuss and chatter and flutter, and I think he treats Penny
abominably
Barbara's fascinating notes on mothers illustrated most of the uses of
illnesses in children's books that Dorian and the subsequent discussion had
put forward. What strikes me reading Eva's notes on DFB, and contrasting
them with the
other authors so far mentioned, Haverfield and LMM particularly
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