Some links
Jan. 19th, 2005 09:09 amA link from
new_atalanta to a wonderful site about the life and works of Noel Streatfeild. It covers her children's and adult books. I'm going to have to pull Apple Bough off the shelf now and reread.
And I found this article about girls' comics at the BBC cult website last week. Make sure you read the bits about the Bunty strip 'The Boyfriend from Blupo', which is just hilarious.
And I found this article about girls' comics at the BBC cult website last week. Make sure you read the bits about the Bunty strip 'The Boyfriend from Blupo', which is just hilarious.
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Date: 2005-01-19 07:52 am (UTC)I also sympathized with Petrova, surrounded by all these shining children. Perhaps Pauline eventually gives up films and comes back to have a brilliant autumn-of-her-life career on the London stage, with plays written for her?
And my horror when I learned that shillings no longer exist and it wouldn't any longer be possible to get "two and six" for pocket money - one of the great disillusionments of my life ;-)
LOL! That's 'old money' - I'm too young to have had my pocket money come in shillings and pence!
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Date: 2005-01-19 08:28 am (UTC)Cool, thank you!
Hmmm...perhaps some fan-fiction is required
;-D I wonder if any was written for
Spoiler for 'The Painted Garden'
Date: 2005-01-19 01:16 pm (UTC)Avon
Re: Spoiler for 'The Painted Garden'
Date: 2005-01-19 03:04 pm (UTC)Re: Spoiler for 'The Painted Garden'
Date: 2005-01-20 12:09 am (UTC)