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But if you look at the corpus of British children's literature from 1900-1980, generally the people who could afford to be authors were white, middle class men.
by oliwarner 2y ago
But if you look at the corpus of British children's literature from 1900-1980, generally the people who could afford to be authors were white, middle class men.
Allowing that generalisations trample all over many superb exceptions, it's not a bad thing to recognise that representation matters. It matter that there be authors that you identify with, even if they aren't writing about you.
- vixen99 2y agoWhat's the surprise? Not easy to have the time and place to write interesting stories and adventures if you're preoccupied with a physically demanding job so that you can keep warm in the winter, feed yourself and your family and retain adequate accommodation. Generally speaking if you want to do something really significant in some field it's as well if you don't already have it, to ensure your own economic autonomy first. The exceptions are really exceptional people!