Posted by Prue Eckett on June 28, 2007 at 02:40:18 from 222.155.138.36 user PrueEckett.
In Reply to: Re: What would Susan's story be? posted by Ed Kiser on June 24, 2007 at 22:01:38:
Certainly without a Susan figure, the children's adventures would have been seen as not only impossible, but likely too wild for well brought up children to be exposed to at the time they were written. She was the civilized figure the fond grannies and great-aunts looked for in books they bought for Christmases and birthdays.
Other 'wilder' classics of the time were generally peopled by adults for whom the conventions were more relaxed, or set in historical times when, as everyone knew, different rules applied. As I write this I'm aware of exceptions, but they are few I think.