I think Mrs. Blackett just seems a little more absent than Mrs. Walker because the first couple of lake books are more about the Swallows than they are about the Amazons, so we see Mrs. Walker fairly frequently because she comes over every couple days to see them - except Peggy and Nancy actually go home to Beckfoot every night. She's around a good bit in Pigeon Post, where they're based at Beckfoot.
Re: Nancy, the books explicitly say that both the Blackett girls are more Turner (i.e. wild and adventurous) than Blackett - we know really very little about Mrs. Blackett, except that she climbed Kanchenjunga with Jim. Nancy and the GA are compared, in terms of how assertive they are and what strong personalities they have, but I think there are more influences than just the GA.
Yeah, I always kind of wondered about Roger and Dick as sort of two explorations of the same character - we get very little sense of Roger as any kind of scientist (other than his interest in engines), or as being particularly clever except in Missee Lee with the Latin.
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Date: 2008-09-07 07:30 pm (UTC)Re: Nancy, the books explicitly say that both the Blackett girls are more Turner (i.e. wild and adventurous) than Blackett - we know really very little about Mrs. Blackett, except that she climbed Kanchenjunga with Jim. Nancy and the GA are compared, in terms of how assertive they are and what strong personalities they have, but I think there are more influences than just the GA.
Yeah, I always kind of wondered about Roger and Dick as sort of two explorations of the same character - we get very little sense of Roger as any kind of scientist (other than his interest in engines), or as being particularly clever except in Missee Lee with the Latin.