Must read too, for many reasons, possibly too many to tweet...https://twitter.com/QuasLacrimas/status/828941724412166144 …
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Yes, Rowling succeeded by reviving a tradition which lived well beyond the period of Orwell's essay, but was almost gone in my childhood.
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I read Enid Blyton and Anthony Buckeridge, but they were very dated, and losing popularity by 1980.
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Orwell's project - to replace conservative assumptions with radical assumptions in children's literature was near-complete by then.
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