Re: Quotation from S & A Series-Callum Home


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Posted by Owen Roberts on May 01, 2007 at 21:51:14 from 80.189.236.169 user OwenRoberts.

In Reply to: Re: Quotation from S & A Series-Callum Home posted by Peter H on May 01, 2007 at 20:31:31:

Everyone seems to think London is the most likely solution to the question.
AR spent 7 years in London between the ages of 18 and 25 approximately. He would have known the university area well especially with his Bohemian London located in some of the Fitzrovian pubs of the University area.
PeterH suggests he may well have juggled with the geography. He may well have done, but his next book was CC which had literal geography.
Dorothea had seen the snow in town and both John and Susan refer to the D's as town children. If AR meant London he might well have used the phrase city children.
As a Londoner who was born, educated and worked in the city for many years, it never struck me that the D's were Londoners. AR usually gave his children recognisable backgrounds.
London has always been a major stop over point for people travelling about England. It is often easier to travel via London than to journey directly. Ed has already observed that in PM Dorothea thought "London last night, and now Beckfoot". If she had lived there she might well have said "Home last night" - it sounds to me more like a staging post.
Of course we will never really know, but to my mind I remain partly unconvinced about the D’s London origins. Perhaps elsewhere in AR’s writings there may be a clue.



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