Exasperating Classics
Patricia Craig, 23 May 1985
Secret Gardens
by Humphrey Carpenter.
Allen and Unwin, 235 pp., £12.95, April 1985,0 04 809022 0 Show More
by Humphrey Carpenter.
Allen and Unwin, 235 pp., £12.95, April 1985,
Pipers at the Gates of Dawn
by Jonathan Cott.
Viking, 327 pp., £12.95, August 1984,0 670 80003 1 Show More
by Jonathan Cott.
Viking, 327 pp., £12.95, August 1984,
“... are continually disparaged for being insufficiently egalitarian, or wide-ranging, or whatever. Robert Leeson, in Reading and Righting, is struck by the failure of children’s authors before the 1960s to represent the working classes satisfactorily in their fiction. He claims a kind of ‘cultural invisibility’ overtook the proletariat, and traces ... ”