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You might imagine that Joan Aiken’s famous writer father, Conrad Aiken, would have been her most formative literary influence, or even her stepfather, British author Martin Armstrong. Hardly ever mentioned, but of huge importance in the development not only of Joan’s writing but of her whole character and imagination, is her mother, Jessie […]
Lovely, Liz!
What a beautiful tribute to the often overlooked hours spent by loving parents. This brought back wonderful memories of my mum reading to me – I credit her with my love of reading, and that has had a more lasting and significant effect in my life than all the years of formal schooling at the most excellent academic institutions. Thank you.
Thank you, lovely to hear from you too!
…and I got thanks from my daughter for posting this too, nice to know the traditions are still being passed on!
An inspiring and insight-inducing post, Lizza, that fills me with even more admiration for Joan as a person as well as a writer. And you’re no mean writer either! (And clearly a lovely person too, it goes without saying!) Jessie must have had an extraordinary personality to have produced such a creative family.
Thank you, that’s very heartwarming. I’d just finished ‘The Road to Middlemarch’ (Rebecca Mead, brilliant!) and came across George Eliot’s last line about ‘the number who lived faithfully a hidden life’ which very much applies to Jessie. Scots Canadian Calvinist background, definitely saw you through!