Barbara said:> Rosamond, degraded? Even Maidlin works as a waitress at one
point.
And Nicky backed this up.
You're quite right, both of you. That was definitely a point too far. In
fact books of this period are littered with people starting genteel tea
shops from M E Atkinson, to Agatha Chris
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> 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
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> Rosamond, degraded? Even Maidlin works as a waitress at one point.
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> Tig wrote
&
Rosamond, degraded? Even Maidlin works as a waitress at one point.
Tig wrote
Their mother takes up a trade - and a very menial one (judging by the
standards of the period when serving in a teashop can be seen as the
ultimate degradation) and not only doesn't bat an eyelid but finds it fun.
--
Bar
On 9 Nov 2004 at 11:16, nicky smith wrote:
Trease seemed to have gradually moved to the right until the
Bannermere books
Then Sue said:
Actually, I think Trease stayed the same (roughly), though less strident as
he grew older; but society moved towards him, so he appears to have moved
rightwards
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> I take Sally's point about the dates of the two writers and also that
> Trease ta
I take Sally's point about the dates of the two writers and also that
Trease tackled a broader range of subjects in his books. I can never agree
that Trease was a patch on Ransome as a writer.
Sally wrote
Oh, not that long! Swallows and Amazons was only 1930, 4 years before
Trease's first book
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
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
Spoilers seem to be in order for this, which I consider silly for a book
published in 1949 but here goes.
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I have just read this, the first Bannermere book for me.
Now, this is a case of me and Dr Fell, so don't get offended, Trease fans.
I simply don't like GT. I find the histori
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> My copy of this has just arrived and I am delighted
> with it. I've only read Geoffrey Treases Maythorne
> books before and this was a particularly good read. I
> read most of it last night and on the train this
> morning. I also looked up the 4 sequels on amazon,
> abe, ebay etc and regretfu
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