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Lisa_T wrote: |
Personally, I've always thought Gerry was the original for Verity-Anne rather than Eustacia- although again, she adapts to her new life much better than either of those two do. |
Kathy_S wrote: |
I've never particularly associated strikes with the 1920s, since they were enough of them to lead to lead to the declaration of Labor Day as a national U.S. holiday in 1894, and they've been around (with greater or lesser success) ever since. |
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One thing that did strike me as uncommon in the genre, if true to life, was the portrayal of differing faces of characters in home vs. school environments. |
Alison H wrote: |
When I first read this I felt as if it must've been written years and years before the earliest CS books, even though I knew it wasn't. It's probably just me, but the style of the prose - not the storyline as such, just the way it was written - seemed to be from an earlier age. That's not a criticism, just an observation! |
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