books

[Aggie]

Anne of Greengables was a fav too . Does any one remember a series about Limberlost ? i can't remember the name

[Beth]

Oldfashionedgranny, I loved the Pamela Brown Blue Door books. My mum passed them down to me and I read them many times

[oldfashionedgranny]

Beth - nice to hear from a fellow fan! I always identified with Lynette - I'm totally different colouring, but she was the best actress so naturally I wanted to be her.

[Beth]

I had forgotten about the books until you reminded me, oldfashionedgranny. Nice to remember
We started a little theatre group, influenced by my reading those books. Myself and a few local friends. We rehearsed in my garage, and sometimes my living room, and our parents clubbed together to hire the church hall for our performance! As far as I remember the audience was mainly our own parents, but we had fun doing it

[oldfashionedgranny]

From when I was little, whenever I had friends to play, we always played "dressing-up" and capered about pretending to be princesses or fairies. I remember my mother making "fairy wings" from old bits of material and attaching them to our wrists with elastic. I was in the village nativity play when I was 6 and loved every minute. My parents ran our village dramatic society, so I grew up with it. Did masses of amateur theatre as I grew older and was lucky enough to have a brief professional career, which I gave up on getting married and went back to amateur theatre. Still bitten by the bug at 67 and act and direct with two local groups. You can't beat the thrill of performing to a live audience.

[Annie]

Just noticed this thread, and yes Aggie, the Anne of Green Gables books were my favourites too. I think the other book you mean is A Girl of the Limberlost - I read and re-read that one many times, it was quite unsettling in places as I remember.

I also loved the William books, although it wasn't until much later in life I realised Richmal Crompton was a woman!

Annie

[oldfashionedgranny]

I always loved the William books too - and these days listen to them on audiotape, read by the lovely Martin Jarvis, who I played opposite when I was in the professional theatre and had a very enjoyable love scene with him - long time ago now but happy memories! Also loved the Jennings books - couldn't stand books about girls' schools, but Jennings and Darbyshire used to make me laugh - remember listening to them on Children's Hour as well.