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From: Sally Miller <derbymiller>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 14:18:51 -0400
Reading Lee's posts reminds me of one of my favorite little girls, Ogden Nash's Isabel, the one who met the "enormous bear." It's in my old copy of "The Bad Parents Garden of Verse" (1936), but I think I've seen it in picture book format since? And then there's Jane, A.A. Milne's "Good Little Girl" who is always being asked "Have you been a good girl?" She thinks with some asperity, "Well, what do they think I went there to do, and why should I want to be bad at the zoo, And should I be likely to say if I had?" And that predates even me. I've always thought that reading me poetry like that was my mother's subversive way of counteracting my father's autocratic insistence on "good behavior." I wonder how many of the 60's feminists were raised on poems like these?
Sally Derby
Received on Fri 22 Jul 2005 01:18:51 PM CDT
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 14:18:51 -0400
Reading Lee's posts reminds me of one of my favorite little girls, Ogden Nash's Isabel, the one who met the "enormous bear." It's in my old copy of "The Bad Parents Garden of Verse" (1936), but I think I've seen it in picture book format since? And then there's Jane, A.A. Milne's "Good Little Girl" who is always being asked "Have you been a good girl?" She thinks with some asperity, "Well, what do they think I went there to do, and why should I want to be bad at the zoo, And should I be likely to say if I had?" And that predates even me. I've always thought that reading me poetry like that was my mother's subversive way of counteracting my father's autocratic insistence on "good behavior." I wonder how many of the 60's feminists were raised on poems like these?
Sally Derby
Received on Fri 22 Jul 2005 01:18:51 PM CDT
