Posted by Jock on September 18, 2005 at 23:41:38 from 217.172.246.144 user Jock.
In Reply to: Swallows and Amazons - How it came to be written posted by Paul on September 18, 2005 at 23:33:39:
Ewgenia seems to have been the main driver in creating the revised verion of the origins story. Although AR wrote a new preface to SA, the various UK Cape impressions of SA continued to appear with the slippers preface (a more concise form of Swallows and Amazons - How it came to be written) until sometime after his death.