Re: Three Men In a Boat et al


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Posted by Jock on October 21, 2005 at 15:01:40 from 81.79.209.48 user Jock.

In Reply to: Three Men In a Boat et al posted by Joy on October 21, 2005 at 13:51:23:

But then AR's Genia was always First Mate and never Captain - and I don't know that he took his first wife Ivy out in boats at all. And AR was born only 25 years after J K Jerome, so they may have shared some of the same social attitudes.

But then Captain Nancy is a much better sailor than Captain John. [Now here's something suitably AR-related that we can all argue about!] And Nancy has inspired a generation of great women sailors including Claire Francis and Ellen MacArthur.


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