Re: Titty's imagination


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Posted by Peter Ceresole on December 18, 2007 at 09:55:19 from 80.176.146.133 user PeterC.

In Reply to: Re: Titty's imagination posted by Prue Eckett on December 18, 2007 at 01:08:32:

My grouch is that there are no parallel male figures to Titty or Dorothea

Surely AR was working with characters that he enjoyed, and who also represented ideals; devotion to duty, like John and Susan (in different ways), initiative and leadership (Nancy) and endurance and knowledge (Dick)? Then there are Titty and Dot who represent creativity in AR's own field, and who he can even use to satirise his own talents. As he was a practical author, who built his stories to sail on a sea of contemporary children and come in to harbour bearing a profit, I think that's the way the characters panned out. In the '30s and '40s, I don't think there was a great place in popular adventure fiction for dreamy boys. I think that he needed to keep control of his creation which involved limiting his options to a certain extent.

As it is, AR's sheer talent and intelligence meant that he still provided stories that were not just successful, but remarkably free of stereotypes.


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