Posted by Jock on November 12, 2006 at 22:39:56 from 87.105.81.146 user Jock.
In Reply to: Re: Coddling children posted by Elizabeth on November 12, 2006 at 21:14:04:
SA is uniquely Swallow-centric in a way that none of the other lake books
are. In SA, the Amazons provide a threat and a contrast and are kept at some
distance from the reader. In the other books in which they appear they creep
towards the centre of the stage. By the time we get to WH, Nancy and Peggy
are running the show. AR, unlike JKR, doesn't seem to have had a masterplan
for the whole series.