Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea

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Wait - all those maids and hired hands described as French are actually black, aren't they?

I think I preferred the books before I realised that.

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To be fair to Mr and Mrs Pevensie, when the kids are away in the holidays, it's because they're being evacuated because there's a war on. When they're away at school, they're at school, but I imagine there would have been a lot of social pressure on middle-class parents to send their kids away to school, in the same way that there's social pressure against home-educating now.

[the0lady.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, but then they gallivant off to America for six weeks, take only the pretty Susan with them, and pack of the youngsters to stay with the hottible Uncle and Aunt Scrubb! Bad parents! No cookie! =)

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Oh, I'd forgotten that bit. :/
I'd rather go to the end of the world on the Dawn Treader than go to America, though!

[the0lady.livejournal.com]

Natch. But it's still nice to be able to blame one's parents for any psychological trauma incurred while doing it! =)

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:)