Posted by Peter Ceresole on December 03, 2006 at 12:42:48 from 80.177.22.49 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: Tabitha Ransome (was: Arthur Ransome manuscript and books for auction) posted by Mike Field on December 03, 2006 at 01:36:57:
There seem to be some mixed messages in that lot, don't there? Parental alienation, mother domination, father denial, daughter manipulation....
Not at all unusual, though. I have some cousins to whom that happened. Their father was a nice guy, but made a disastrous choice of wife. Each would probably have been okay without the other. They had three children- I've known them since they were babies. They're now middle aged. Two have more or less recovered. One certainly hasn't. All are deeply damaged.
What a mess. And what a shame.
Yes. But just think; if AR had been happily married to Ivy, we probably wouldn't have had his lovely books. Certainly not in the form in which they appeared. In a sense, they are his children with Evgenia. I think that's true, not just a maudlin phrase.