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JOHN ROWE TOWNSEND

Honor Arundel, who has written many 'situation stories' for and about adolescent girls, found a strong and unusual theme in A Family Failing (1972). The subject is the dissolution of a previously happy family, partly through outward circumstances, partly as a natural result of time and change…. It is a theme of universal relevance, since every family, considered as a unit of parents and dependent children, must eventually break up. Once somebody has thought of it, it seems obvious (which is usually the mark of a good idea). The ending is not a happy one, but is not unhappy either. A generation has grown up. Life moves on. (p. 299)

John Rowe Townsend, "How Young Is an Adult?" in his Written for Children: An Outline of English-Language Children's Literature (copyright © 1965, 1974 by John Rowe Townsend; courtesy of J. B. Lippincott, Publishers; in Canada by Kestrel Books), revised edition, Lippincott, 1974,...

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1. Introduction
2. Robert Bell
3. Polly Goodwin
4. S. L. Blanford
5. Linda Crowe
6. Zena Sutherland
7. Mrs. J. M. Murphy
8. Margery Fisher
9. Mrs. J. Aldridge
10. Margery Fisher
11. Julia G. Russell
12. Judith Aldridge
13. John W. Conner
14. Nicholas Tucker
15. John W. Conner
16. Margery Fisher
17. Celia Boyd
18. Judith Aldridge
19. Vivienne Furlong
20. J. Russell
21. John Rowe Townsend
22. Eleanore Braun Luckey
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