Posted by Mike Field on October 12, 2004 at 10:35:29 from 203.166.84.149 user mikefield.
In Reply to: Re: E Nesbit posted by Robert Hill on October 11, 2004 at 01:32:00:
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"For her, magic worlds are as chaotic as real life; there are no Voldemorts or Dumbledores, no forces of pure evil or pure good, in her fantasies. So the children have to muddle through just as they would in everyday life.
Perhaps this shows that, in a reversal of what we might expect, she is a writer who refuses to idealise childhood, while some of those who came after her wanted to idealise it to an extreme. The children in Nesbit's books keep being reminded that there is nothing very special about them at all."
One of AR's secrets too, I think. You're left with the feeling that if you'd been born a Walker or a Blackett or a Callum you would have had just the same experiences they had.
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