Posted by martin on May 20, 1999 at 08:03:54 from kr5-9a.dial-up.arnes.si:
In Reply to: Re: Arthur Ransome: Feminism is extraordinary posted by Anne LeVeque on May 18, 1999 at 20:46:09:
Can't now find the posting that first refers to "brothers under the skin" so I apologise for adding this note in the wrong place. The reference is of course to Kipling:
"The Colonel's lady and July O'Grady are sisters under the skin" - a very radical notion for the times. It was published in a collection "The Ladies", 1896, at the end of a period in which Kipling had been living near Vermont. I don't think the line was meant to be complimentary to women.