Re: Captain Flint a younger brother? (Was 3 million cheers and 10 gongs for ARC).


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Posted by Mark on January 12, 1998 at 22:25:46:

In Reply to: Re: Captain Flint a younger brother? (Was 3 million cheers and 10 gongs for ARC). posted by Bob Hollis on January 12, 1998 at 21:13:00:

Bob Hollis asked, "Did Molly marry a man younger than herself"?
I thought of that too, and guessed that she did. If we
allow for her brother to be only one year younger, Bob Blackett
could be close to the same age as Jim. Would a year's difference
be a problem in that period?

Although it looks like the Amazons are composite figures inspired by Taqui
Altounyan, Georgie and Pauli Rawdon-Smith, and even Dora and Barbara Collingwood,
does anyone know where Molly and Bob Blackett came from and why Bob was dead?

Perhaps it was necessary for him to be out of the way for the Amazons to be as
free as they were, or for Captain Flint/Arthur Ransome to be the only father
figure on the scene. Afterall, Commander Walker doesn't even appear as
a real person until We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea, the book in which Arthur
finally made peace with his own father. In the early books, supportive mothers
and absent fathers seems to be the rule.




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