Nor did I want to read about Colin Craven dying at Dunkirk in World War II.
Dammit!
I have never been fond of “major character death” fic and the fact that this is professionally published does not make me like it any better.
Major character death fic is slightly inseparable from The Secret Garden for me because it's in the 1987 TV adaptation which I otherwise recommend (it has a World War I frame story), but at least it doesn't kill off Colin. In fact it has him played as an adult by Colin Firth, making the series my introduction to him, although I wouldn't realize this was important for about another twenty years. Ditto Derek Jacobi, though in his case I noticed sooner.
spinsters being, in Ferberville, by definition failures. As are wives if they’re too conventional. And women who sleep around if they sleep around too much.
What does being a not-failed woman look like in Ferber's world?
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Dammit!
I have never been fond of “major character death” fic and the fact that this is professionally published does not make me like it any better.
Major character death fic is slightly inseparable from The Secret Garden for me because it's in the 1987 TV adaptation which I otherwise recommend (it has a World War I frame story), but at least it doesn't kill off Colin. In fact it has him played as an adult by Colin Firth, making the series my introduction to him, although I wouldn't realize this was important for about another twenty years. Ditto Derek Jacobi, though in his case I noticed sooner.
spinsters being, in Ferberville, by definition failures. As are wives if they’re too conventional. And women who sleep around if they sleep around too much.
What does being a not-failed woman look like in Ferber's world?