Posted by ROGER Wardale on June 16, 2011 at 12:42:44 user RogerW.
In Reply to: Re: Nancy and Peggy posted by Magnus Smith on June 16, 2011 at 04:17:35:
The opening pages of Picts give a fascinating glimpse of the sisterly relationship when not indulging in piratical role-play.
Magnus, I think you have fallen into the trap of believing that AR's characters have more so-called 'originals' than they actually do. Even in SA when Titty and Roger were deliberately created so as to be sufficiently similar to the young Altounyans so that they would believe the book was about them, the characters of Titty Walker and Roger owed much to AR's imagination and there are no other clearly identifiable originals. I would say that the only youngsters that AR came to know well were George and Josephine Russell.