Re: The Mysterious Life of the Blacketts


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Posted by Robert Hill on July 13, 1999 at 15:45:34 from 129.11.153.35 via proxy proxy2.leeds.ac.uk:

In Reply to: Re: The Mysterious Life of the Blacketts posted by Jenna Darter on July 13, 1999 at 14:38:53:

The Blacketts are certainly well off but with regard to Jenna's points:

Is it certain that the horse and carriage are their own and not hired?

The dressing for dinner and the smart dressing of Captain Flint
were probably only done to avoid incurring the Great Aunt's displeasure.
But even so they say something about the social standing of the family.

I've previously mentioned the loss of the housemaid.
I commented that although tP&tM is set only 2 years after Swallowdale,
it was published about 12 years later, during which time there had
been many social changes. In particular, tP&tM came out during WW2
when readers were undergoing many privations. I speculated that
for these reasons, AR felt the need to tone down the Blacketts' wealth
a bit.

The obvious assumption about what happened to Bob Blackett is that he
was killed in WW1, but there have been other theories which I'll
leave it to others to re-tell.

There has also been a discussion of the ownership of Beckfoot, during
which I said that I'd always assumed that before the marriage of
Bob Blackett to Molly Turner, the house was in the Turner family rather
than the Blackett family. I've always assumed that it was at Beckfoot
that Molly and Jim Turner were brought up by their aunt Maria.
However, others disagreed with this view.


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