Posted by Adam Quinan on April 01, 2011 at 05:33:24 user Adam.
In Reply to: Diana Wynne Jones and AR posted by Robert Hill on April 01, 2011 at 02:51:28:
The Telegraph version also caused me to wonder whether it really was AR who shouted at her. The description does not seem to match AR.
"On the outbreak of war the family was evacuated to the Lake District where they shared, with several other families, the large house which had once been home to the Altounyan children, upon whom Arthur Ransome based his Swallows and Amazons stories. Ransome himself (“a small, tubby man with a lot of beard”) came round to complain about the noise the children were making; Beatrix Potter was more direct, smacking Diana’s younger sister for swinging on a gate."
Since beatrix Potter dies in 1943 (aged 77) and was not well in her final years I do wonder whether that story has much credibility either.