tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950999049789394042.post2636755144385329759..comments2024-03-27T06:42:26.250-07:00Comments on Seven Miles of Steel Thistles: Witches in Children's LiteratureKatherine Langrishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12529700103932422873noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950999049789394042.post-50328285780623085282016-11-15T12:55:14.820-08:002016-11-15T12:55:14.820-08:00The illustrators are Isobel and John Morton Sale -...The illustrators are Isobel and John Morton Sale - the original edition of The Tree That Sat Down is Jonathan Cape, 1945. Katherine Langrishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12529700103932422873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950999049789394042.post-31812210015149966112016-11-05T15:31:08.840-07:002016-11-05T15:31:08.840-07:00Who is the illustrator oh "Miss Smith" f...Who is the illustrator oh "Miss Smith" from "The Tree That Sat Down"? I'd like to buy a copy, but want to be sure I get one with that great picture. rubyslippersreadshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16717958895636854554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950999049789394042.post-75364974210731867152013-12-13T08:39:48.932-08:002013-12-13T08:39:48.932-08:00I'd forgotten about the Beverley Nicholls book...I'd forgotten about the Beverley Nicholls books. I loved them as a child. I would also recommend the very chilling 'Witches of Whitby' trilogy by Phillip Jarvis I think. He also wrote the Deptford Mice trilogy. Dark children's literature which I read as an adult and loved.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950999049789394042.post-20676594578884102142013-08-25T02:29:19.475-07:002013-08-25T02:29:19.475-07:00Yes, it's awkward trying to read the books rig...Yes, it's awkward trying to read the books right through - whichever version you use, you miss out some favourite passages. I love Madame Mim, but I also love the wild geese. And so on. And then there's The Book of Merlin. It must have been an on-going life-work, I think. I must read the Sylvia Townsend-Warner biography, Jane! Katherine Langrishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12529700103932422873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950999049789394042.post-5572846880699435562013-08-24T15:06:23.739-07:002013-08-24T15:06:23.739-07:00I'd forgotten the Madam Mi. thing. I remember ...I'd forgotten the Madam Mi. thing. I remember now buying The Sword In The Stone separately when I realised it had bits left out of The Once And Future King, which I had read first.Sue Bursztynskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09362273418897882971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950999049789394042.post-29331603876883712092013-08-24T07:52:58.079-07:002013-08-24T07:52:58.079-07:00Wow, a post about Beverly Nichols! I loved 'Th...Wow, a post about Beverly Nichols! I loved 'The Tree That Sat Down' and The Stream That Stood Still,' but I had not known there were two others in the series.<br /><br />And I have been baffled by the different versions of 'The Sword in the Stone' for years. My 13-th impression copy has all the Madame Mim sequence and the attack on Castle of the Forest Sauvage, but I remember reading a copy while I was in Canada which had most of that replaced with something that involved the boys battling anthropophagi -- I can't remember details, I was so distracted by looking for the Madame Mim chapter. It felt at the time like an attempt to remove the magic from the book, but I gather it was actually the original version.<br /><br />Has anybody published a compendium volume that contains all the different portions of the book?Pat Bownehttp://www.raosyth.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950999049789394042.post-9768468096800291882013-08-24T03:08:09.879-07:002013-08-24T03:08:09.879-07:00I think the Madam Mim poem was written (and perhap...I think the Madam Mim poem was written (and perhaps left out) because of White's very odd relationship with his own mum, which Sylvia Townsend Warner made quite clear in her epic biography of him.<br /><br />JaneJane Yolenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16614445497209111557noreply@blogger.com