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From: betsy@dartvax.UUCP (Betsy Hanes Perry)
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Subject: Re: THENDARA HOUSE
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Date: Mon, 19-Mar-84 15:51:43 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 19 15:51:43 1984
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Mr. Maurer would like to hear about 
       For example, a man who loves his wife and children (golly, maybe he
       dosen't even beat her when their baby turns out to be a girl), but
       sure as hell isn't going to give them any modern-day freedoms...
in one of MZB's novels.
 
What about the title character's father, The MacAran, in *Hawkmistress*?
He loves his daughter dearly, but he won't put up with any of her tomboy
nonsense, and tries to force her into a marriage against her will.
Yet he is presented as a sympathetic character.  His daughter even
loves him, in spite of their strong philosophical differences.
 
(Just for the record, I thought that Mists of Avalon was terrible,
even though I'm a rabid Arthurian.  Maybe BECAUSE I'm a rabid Arthurian.
So you don't have to be an MZB idolizer to like some of her works.)
-- 
Betsy Perry
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