Enid later recalled in vivid detail the first school she went to, Tresco, which was run by the Misses Read in their private house. She recalled, too, the most important texts among her early reading:...
Textual Production
Rose Macaulay
RM
published another novel, Orphan Island, a tongue-in-cheek contribution to the exotic-adventure genre of The Coral IslandR. M. Ballantyne
and Treasure IslandRobert Louis Stevenson
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Timeline
Later 1857: R. M. Ballantyne published his hugely popular...
Writing climate item
Later 1857
R. M. Ballantyne
published his hugely popular boys' story The Coral Island; the title-page bore the following year's date.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
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Sutherland, John, b. 1938. “Wife Overboard”. London Review of Books, LRB, 20 Jan. 2000, pp. 35-6.
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Texts
Ballantyne, R. M. The Coral Island. T. Nelson and Sons, 1858.
