![]() ![]() “Pam Webster read it when she was seven,” my sister said flatly, to make matters worse, as I miserably turned the pages of this handsome, serious-looking hardback which appeared to have no pictures or conversations. Wasn’t this dark, dense, moralistic novel a bit advanced for me? I was already reading Lewis Carroll, fair enough but otherwise I was very happy with illustrated stories about Sammie the Seagull in quite big print. My memory is that I was very excited to be given a book, but very confused that it was this one. For my seventh birthday, my sister gave me as a present The Princess and Curdie by the Victorian Scottish fantasy writer, George MacDonald (1824-1905). It was a formative moment in my literary life – and not in a good way. The Victorian Scottish fantasy writer was a huge influence on CS Lewis (Public Domain) ![]()
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