“Children’s literature of the variety produced by Crompton and others such as AA Milne, Enid Blyton, et al provided a false but satisfactory memory of assumed childhood experiences and was, for the next five decades or so of her career, a suitable fictional outlet to help entertain and distract from successively: economic depression, wartime, and post-war shortages.”
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