Posted by Duncan on February 14, 2013 at 06:56:48 user Duncan.
In Reply to: Re: Who owns all this anyway? posted by Peter Hyland on February 14, 2013 at 02:18:18:
But arguably Captain Flint is expressing no just a legal position but a general philosophy there. After all, the Swallows and the Amazons spent a good deal of time galloping about on other people's land and while occasionally permission appears to be quietly asked (although it is unlikely that Swallowdale belongs to the Swainsons, for example - issues of ownership and tenancy are certainly absent there; it is quite possible that the Blacketts own some of the land that they gallop about on, but there's no problem with Jacky galloping about on it too). I suspect this does have its roots in AR's "golden age utopianism" and gypsy spirit. As I said previously, he appears to have taken a rather more proprietorial approach to his own land, but I wonder what he would have made of children camping on his lake frontage?