Posted by Peter H on August 07, 2003 at 19:04:28 from 213.122.112.214 user Peter_H.
In Reply to: Re: Intrusions of Real Life posted by Peter Ceresole on August 07, 2003 at 18:04:20:
'natural audience for the S&A books'
I suspect that the books appealed across classes. I can't prove this, but I can offer one example from my own experience. I went to a tough-ish school on Merseyside, where 10 year old boys absolutely derided any book or magazine with flowers or fairies or girls in it. E Blyton was right out. Yet I can remember one toughie reading Ransome and encouraging others to do so, and the copy of S&A in the school 'library' was very worn. Admittedly it was a 'grammar school', and it was in the 1950s not the 1930s, but nevertheless I offer it as evidence. The prosperous middle classes were not very thick on the ground in Birkenhead.