SHIP: Re: Little Women

[foxmoth at qnet.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 12697

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Dave Hardenbrook <DaveH47 at m...> wrote:

> Beth dies because her real-life counterpart did.  I tend to think LMA
> carried the principle of "Write what you know" too far.

	In those days, pre-antibiotics and vaccinations, many families 
lost children. And to bring this back to HP, no one in those times 
would have thought the death of a child 'too dark' for children's lit. 
Pippin