Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on October 05, 2009 at 09:26:00 user ACB.
In Reply to: Re: Writing in the first person posted by Peter Ceresole on October 04, 2009 at 21:09:20:
I agree.
Ransome's juvenilia is dreadfully twee, which is why he suppressed it, of course, and these are the last vestiges of tweeness.
Interestingly, Tolkien does the same thing in "The Hobbit", and drops it in "The Lord of the Rings" - perhaps a learned reader could comment on whether Ransome remarked on the first person apostrophisings in "The Hobbit" when he read it and advised Tolkien on it.