tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post5768655890066154820..comments2024-03-27T10:21:58.236-07:00Comments on FURROWED MIDDLEBROW: Children's authors (Part 2 of 4)Furrowed Middlebrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-4930868454809721382015-02-05T08:41:12.301-08:002015-02-05T08:41:12.301-08:00I came across a spare copy of Antonia Forest's...I came across a spare copy of Antonia Forest's Autumn Term just now and was going to despatch it to you as a reward for giving me so much pleasure through your website. However I see you already have it but possibly still unread?<br /><br />Antonia Forest is regarded by many of us as the crème de la crème of school story writers so if you haven't yet started on her Kingscote series I urge you to do so. I came to her more or less at the end of the series, with The Ready Made Family and I was blown away....Cestinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03050699324845479257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-46627398645861720712014-02-09T10:09:11.677-08:002014-02-09T10:09:11.677-08:00That site looks like a great resource for Brent-Dy...That site looks like a great resource for Brent-Dyer and for several of the other writers I'm interested in. Thanks for sharing!Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-87735650032594988912014-02-08T14:04:28.654-08:002014-02-08T14:04:28.654-08:00I like the La Rochelle series and there is a great...I like the La Rochelle series and there is a great deal of overlap with the later books in the Chalet School series, with La Rochelle offspring playing an important role in the CS.<br /><br />You can see which CS books have been badly cut here: http://www.collectingbooksandmagazines.com/ebd.htmlCestinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03050699324845479257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-40661608133083203222014-02-08T11:22:27.795-08:002014-02-08T11:22:27.795-08:00Oh, thank you for letting me know this, Cestina. ...Oh, thank you for letting me know this, Cestina. Someone else mentioned that the reprints of Elsie Oxenham were similarly cut. I really enjoyed both of the Brent-Dyers, but now of course I wish I had read them uncut. I've also been wondering about her non-Chalet School books too--the cover of GGB's Maids of La Rochelle seems to be calling my name...Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-10380656784942034582014-02-08T08:35:52.879-08:002014-02-08T08:35:52.879-08:00I've just managed to track down which of the C...I've just managed to track down which of the Chalet School books you have - I take it that the photo means you possess the Armada editions rather than hardbacks? <br /><br />Armada did EBD a great disservice in one sense, by random and often illogical chopping of words and sections of the books. (A great service though by keeping them in print well beyond what one might have expected their shelf-life to have been).<br /><br />Island is pretty well uncut, but Exile, which many of her followers, of which I am one, consider to be her best book, has suffered very badly so if you can possibly get hold of the hardback version I would urge you to do so and chuck the other out.....GGBP have also printed it twice in its full glory :-)Cestinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03050699324845479257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-42152220624767958442014-01-21T16:02:55.677-08:002014-01-21T16:02:55.677-08:00Oh, Susan, I think I've heard legends of the G...Oh, Susan, I think I've heard legends of the Great Purge of 1966. I know I lost a lot of books in the Great Purge of 2000, when I moved to San Francisco. If only space were never an issue and I could have back all the books I've gotten rid of over the years...Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-6532337653732149372014-01-21T07:10:22.016-08:002014-01-21T07:10:22.016-08:00Oh Scott, these all look so delicious. I wish I&#...Oh Scott, these all look so delicious. I wish I'd had them to read as an impressionable young pre-adolescent. I had a few of that ilk then, which I read and reread, but they all vanished in The Great Purge of 1966.Susan Dhttp://www.destevenson.orgnoreply@blogger.com