Oh yes, I'm definitely remembering Mrs. Pollifax gift for attracting wise friends who sometimes know things they really have no way of knowing. A mirror of Mrs. Pollifax's superpower of being warm and welcoming and quickly discovering whether she can trust people! It never occurred to me to think of those as having any relation to telepathy, but now that you mention it...
I will be approaching my further Frances Hodgson Burnett reads with a weather eye toward any mentions of magic/telepathy/what have you. So far I don't think anything of hers that I've read has definitely crossed that magical line, but she does like to skirt right along it - maybe nothing technically magical happens in The Secret Garden, but it feels more magical than a lot of books with dragons and wizards and so forth and so on.
I don't know that I would throw the book across the wall at surprise!telepathic pot smashing, but I do feel that would cross the boundaries of fair play for me. A spot of telepathy here or there, a clairvoyant rescue even, all right; but blowing up an entire pot with the powers of your mind!
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Date: 2024-04-09 01:13 pm (UTC)I will be approaching my further Frances Hodgson Burnett reads with a weather eye toward any mentions of magic/telepathy/what have you. So far I don't think anything of hers that I've read has definitely crossed that magical line, but she does like to skirt right along it - maybe nothing technically magical happens in The Secret Garden, but it feels more magical than a lot of books with dragons and wizards and so forth and so on.
I don't know that I would throw the book across the wall at surprise!telepathic pot smashing, but I do feel that would cross the boundaries of fair play for me. A spot of telepathy here or there, a clairvoyant rescue even, all right; but blowing up an entire pot with the powers of your mind!