Posted by Roger Wardale on April 05, 2011 at 00:26:47 user RogerW.
In Reply to: Re: Diana Wynne Jones and AR posted by Peter Ceresole on April 04, 2011 at 05:06:32:
In Aug 1940, AR wrote to his mother (from Harkstead Hall) mentioning that Lanehead had been taken over by an infant school. Was this DWJ and her parents with 'progressive' notions of education? It sounds possible.
The affair of shouting at children because he thought they were making too much noise, is so entirely in character that I am prepared to accept DWJ's account of the encounter.
AR was a touch under six feet (from his application for a Russian passport or some such document, if I remember correctly).