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#1: Families: the Ozannes Author: jennifer, Location: Taiwan

Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 6:22 am
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The Ozanne consists of Paul, a lawyer, his wife Elizabeth and their four children; Michael, "Bad Bill" and twins Vanna and Nella. Paul also has a much younger sister, Pauline, while Vanna marries an American fruit farmer.

What do you think of the Ozannes? How do they contrast to the other Temple girl families - the Chesters and Lucys?

#2: Author: Travellers Joy, Location: Middle of Nowhere

Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 6:43 am
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I'm not sure EBD actually liked them in the end because I don't feel we get to know them anywhere near as well as the Chesters or the Lucys. The twins are always such shadowy non-characters to me, whereas I have clear impressions of most of their girl-cousins.

#3: Author: Fiona Mc, Location: Bendigo, Australia

Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 11:53 am
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I think EBD began to forget about the family because when the twins were younger we heard so much more of them and I loved the family especially in the La Rochelle series. Bad Bill was hilarious. I would have loved to have seen the twins as prefects with Bride and the others

#4: Author: Joyce, Location: Hong Kong

Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 1:31 pm
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I never understood why EBD was so down on the Ozanne twins.

They seem perfectly nice girls to me but they don't even get to be prefects when every single one of their cousins are. Then they gradually vanish out of the series before being bumped off permanently because their mother wants them to go on a cruise with her.

And they are given a really bad rap in Bride when they are not even TOLD that Julie is ill and Betsy doesn't want them to have breakfast with her because they 'wouldn't be much help.' I hope eventually they were told and it wasn't left to school gossip.

Cheers,
Joyce

#5: Author: Alison H, Location: Manchester

Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 1:55 pm
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I don't know what she had against the Ozanne girls either - all we seem to be told about them is that they're in the same form as younger girls because they're lazy! Considering what a big role the Chester and Lucy girls play, it seems very odd.

#6: Author: Róisín, Location: Ireland

Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 2:33 pm
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I find it really strange that the Ozanne children are products of Elizabeth and Paul at all! Elizabeth is so calm, quiet, responsible and gently clever. Paul is taciturn, intelligent and also gentle-mannered. How did they end up with those twins and Bad Bill?! Laughing

Definitely, EBD didn't like them - they seem hardly treated as cousins at all in the School. Whereas I can probably tell you at any given point in the series where Julie Lucy was living, and I could *guess* fairly accurately at Anne Chester, I haven't a clue where Elizabeth Ozanne and her clan ended up after they left the islands. Confused

Does anyone know - has there been any drabbles about the Ozannes?

#7: Author: Pat, Location: Doncaster

Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 8:55 pm
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Not many if at all. They are such nondescript people that it's hard to write about them.

#8: Author: jennifer, Location: Taiwan

Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 2:39 am
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I find the Ozanne kids rather interesting. The Chesters and the Lucys have also been raised in well-to-do homes (the Chesters with some problems for a while), but their kids have been raised to be hard working, responsible and well mannered - not angels by any means, but nice, decent kids.

The Ozannes, however, have Michael, who is generally well behaved but occasionally breaks out, Bad Bill, who sounds like a holy terror, and the twins, who are nice girls, but lazy and rather spoiled.

The twins seemed to have been raised as indulged upper class girls. They're pretty and charming, they have everything thing they want materially, they attend a good school, but aren't really expected to work hard at the school work or have a career plan, or really, to plan or work for anything. Everything has come easily to them. Their parents seem oblivious to this until they are in their mid teens, and helpless to do anything about it.

In Bride Leads

Quote:

They were the youngest
of their family while Betsy and Nancy both had a long string of
brothers and sisters after them. They were in the same form as Betsy,
but while she was always among the first three, they cheerfully
adorned the lower end of the lists. At seventeen, they were little
older in outlook than Vi, and neither wanted to grow beyond it. Life
had always been very easy for them. Their father was a wealthy man who
could give them all they wanted and their mother had tended to keep
them much younger than their age. Not even school had done much to
mature them so far, and Miss Annersley felt that they would always
slip through life happily unless circumstances changed. The Chesters
were a very long family and a poor one into the bargain, and the
Chester girls had known hard struggles. As for the young Lucys, there
was no lack of money there, but their parents had brought them up to
help with the younger ones and take responsibilities as they grew
older.

I haven't read Maids of La Rochelle, so I don't know much of Paul and Elizabeth.

#9: Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire

Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:40 am
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Elizabeth Temple, as the oldest of the three, had to do most of the managing and the worrying about her younger sisters, so perhaps when she married Paul, she sat back and ceased to worry. Vanna and Nella certainly had a mischievous streak when they were younger, but seem to have lapsed into idleness as they grew older.

#10: Author: Angela, Location: Huddersfield

Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 6:35 pm
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I seem to recall that one of them was good at fretwork and when she was younger there were some thoughts about having her professionally trained later on.

One was said to be brighter than the other but an attack of some infectious disease had held her back I think.

That probably shows how negatively they were portrayed, in that they just merge into one & I can't remember which was which!

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