![]() ![]() The children and the old people become fast friends, the former fixing up one of the old cottages for a clubhouse.”Īccording to “A Secure World of Childhood: The Artistry of Elizabeth Enright” (found in Hollins Critic from April 1998), Ms. ![]() While exploring a swamp which was once a lake resort, Portia and Julian discover a cluster of decayed Victorian summer cottages, where Minnehaha Cheever and Pindar Payton, elderly recluses, maintain their turn-of-the-century way of life in both costume and manner. Great book! – Christine KellyĪmerican Writers for Children, 1900-1960 describes the plot in this way: “In Gone-Away Lake, ten-and-a-half-year-old Portia Blake and her younger brother Foster, who tends to be absorbed in adventure fantasies, spend summer vacation in the country with their Aunt and Uncle Jarman and their cousin Julian, an amateur naturalist. ![]() Summertime is practically a character here- the feel of hot sun, the sights and smells of the natural world, all lyrically described and overall giving an idyllic feel of what childhood summer used to be, or perhaps never was but what we hoped it could have been. What child has not wanted to discover a lost place and create a special hidden retreat known only to herself and maybe a few friends? That’s what we read about here: cousins finding an abandoned summer colony of houses, with two older characters that have retreated from the world currently living there. #42 Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright (1957) ![]()
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