![]() Footnote 1 But Brisley also produced some very different sets of stories, among them two collections of tales about Bunchy (who is, as it turns out, one of MMM’s classmates). The simplicity of the stories and the modesty of MMM’s “adventures” along with the clarity of their implicit (generally Christian) precepts may have made critical commentary seem redundant. paid to Joyce Brisley’s work,” even in studies of the genre of the “family story,” to which the Milly Molly Mandy stories so obviously belong (168). It is still the case that, as Factor noted, very little “critical attention. ![]() This is especially so, given the exponential development of the academic study of writing for children since the 1970s-and, indeed, throughout the forty-one years since the publication of a perceptive tribute by June Factor in Children’s Literature in Education in 1979. It is therefore surprising that Joyce Lankester Brisley has not been the subject of a substantial biography or critical study to date. The total includes two anthologies published since Brisley’s death in 1978-these being The Joyce Lankester Brisley Book (Chambers Harrap 1981) and The Best of Milly Molly Mandy (a boxed four-volume set of previously-published collections, Gardners Books 2004). ![]() ![]() Joyce Lankester Brisley’s Milly Molly Mandy books have been regularly reprinted since their first publication almost a century ago (in the Christian Science Monitor in 1924). ![]()
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