Re: Ransome in other author's books: two more


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Posted by Robert Dilley on 11/09/99 from geog-rc2006f.lakeheadu.ca:

In Reply to: Re: Ransome in other author's books: two more posted by Peter Willis on November 07, 1999 at 23:03:22:

I have located the Nevil Shute reference in No Highway (1948). In Chapter 11:

Elspeth was reading Swallows and Amazons bought for her that morning by Marjorie, the first child's book that she had had for over a year with the exception of those she got at school. She told her father all about it. "It's ever so exciting, Daddy," she said. "They did all sorts of things in boats, without any grown-ups with them at all! Can we go somewhere in the holidays and sail a boat, Daddy? Marjorie says there's a sort of series of books all about the same children. May I have another for my birthday?"
He sat looking at Arthur Ransome's pictures with her....

A few days later (Chapter 12)there is a brief reference to the girl who was reading Arthur Ransome lying on her bed upstairs. A grammarian might argue that this last might be less ambiguous had it read "lying on her bed upstairs reading Arthur Ransome", but who can dispute that "it's ever so exciting'?


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