Posted by Tim Johns on February 13, 2000 at 16:29:43 from wes22.bham.ac.uk:
In Reply to: Not the Burghers of Calais posted by Margaret Ratcliffe on February 13, 2000 at 14:08:45:
The SD quotation is from 'The Armada' a marvelous piece of hokum by Lord Macaulay. If you'd like to sample it, click here.
The quotation reminds me once again what an extraordinarily well-read little girl Titty was. I've recently had the pleasure of teaching Swallows and Amazons to 50 intelligent and interested English Deparment undergraduates: sadly, only one of them managed to identify the quotation at the head of Chapter One, the source of Titty's name of Darien for the headland from which they could see Wild Cat Island.