Charles Hamilton (writer): Quotes about boys

Charles Hamilton (writer) was English writer of school stories. Explore interesting quotes on boy.

Charles Hamilton (writer): 20 quotes1 like

“The business of a boys' author is not to consider political issues, but to entertain the readers, make them as happy as possible.”

Charles Hamilton (writer)

Oxford Companion to Children's Literature: "Charles Hamilton" (pages 235-7)

“All boys ought to be drownded at birth.”

Charles Hamilton (writer)

Gosling, the school porter.
Oxford Companion to Children's Literature: "Billy Bunter" (pages 62-4)

“The GEM and MAGNET are sister-papers (characters out of one paper frequently appear in the other), and were both started more than thirty years ago. At that time, together with Chums and the old B[oy’s] O[wn] P[aper], they were the leading papers for boys, and they remained dominant till quite recently. Each of them carries every week a fifteen — or twenty-thousand-word school story, complete in itself, but usually more or less connected with the story of the week before. The Gem in addition to its school story carries one or more adventure serial. Otherwise the two papers are so much alike that they can be treated as one, though the MAGNET has always been the better known of the two, probably because it possesses a really first-rate character in the fat boy. Billy Bunter.”

Charles Hamilton (writer)

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