Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 14:04:04 +0100 (BST)
From: MARK_LITTLE <m.little-AT-unn.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Blyton


I absolutley agree - what is interesting in Blyton apart from the utterly
blatant content of Noddy (and I believe a truly monstrous text called Little Black Sambo) was
the insidious racism of books like the Famous Five (now don't all shout at
once!).  This is clealry linked to political and historical events of the
period, but the bad guys in all of these books are either foreigners (usually
german) or Gypsies.  The nostalgia here is for the waining empire and the lost
influence of the Union Jack.

Mark