If you do find the Lewis essay, pls post his list!
On 20 Dec 2005 12:33:16 -0800, "Orion2012" <menelvagor1939.RemoveThis@yahoo.com>
wrote:
>Dear Bree,
>
>Thanks for your quick response. I daresay that the Pevensies owe
>something to the Bastables, but I could never see what Lewis saw in the
>RAILWAY CHILDREN.
>I could never get into it.
I don't recall him mentioning RAILWAY CHILDREN, tho I don't recall reading
the essay either, and RC was quite a popular book in its time. I'm sure he
would have liked the fantasies better. He said something about STORY OF THE
AMULET (which was about travel to the past) as being his first introduction
to the feeling of { the dark backward and abyss of time } or some such
quote (this may have been in OF OTHER WORLDS).
It wasn't just the characters of the children (tho I think Eustace's
journal style owes something to Oswald Bastable) -- but Nesbit is credited
with inventing the whole ... genre you might say, of ordinary children
squabbling during magic adventures in a magic world, and the contrast of
back and forth from that world to their own. Iirc I've seen people talk
about Charles Williams and other non-children's writers owing her for that.
--
Bree
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