Posted by Adam Quinan on May 29, 2012 at 14:53:38 user Adam.
In Reply to: Re: A coincidence of island names... posted by Duncan on May 29, 2012 at 05:49:48:
There is an extra section in the 1999 edition which discusses Hardyment and Brogan's books and accepts their position about the identity of the original of Wild Cat island and then she adds:
"For the record: When I interviewed him I told Ransome about our day at Newlands, near Derwent Water. I spoke of Saint Herbert's Island. Perhaps out of perversity (he was a perverse old man) he told me that Wild Cat island was in Derwent water. If so, Mr. Brown's island [AQ note: the owl in Beatrix Potter's Squirrel Nutkin] would be the Swallow's island. I don't really believe that now. What I do believe is that Mr. Brown, Captain Flint and Arthur Ransome all have something in common. They prided themselves on their grumpiness."