But with Malory Towers’s emphasis on women’s potential, it arguably chimes with current conversations around gender. Lucy Mangan, journalist and author of one of the new stories, can also spot a political resonance: “The books are set in a stable, unchanging, enclosed, safe little world – which we all hanker for at some time or another, and I suspect more than ever now that everything seems to be going to hell in a handcart.”īlyton is hardly a common source of feminist inspiration. “We want to look into faces not of rage and bitterness but of hope and truth, like Greta Thunberg and all the brave young climate change activists,” she says. For Rice, this means Malory Towers is imbued with hope and goodwill – attitudes useful in the current political climate. The series was written between 19, when Clement Attlee’s Labour government was nursing the country back to health after the war. The second book in Enid Blyton’s Malory towers series, written in 1947.
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