""If You Call Me Grandmother, That Will Do"" by Roderick McGillis

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"If You Call Me Grandmother, That Will Do"

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Studies an enigmatic character in MacDonald’s The Princess and the Goblin, the old woman in the tower. Notes some of the explanations offered for whom she represents, and discusses her function as embodying the reconciliation of opposites.

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McGillis, Roderick (1979) ""If You Call Me Grandmother, That Will Do"," Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature: Vol. 6 : No. 3 , Article 9.
Available at: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol6/iss3/9

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