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Weell - not teen fiction per se, but there is the notorious part in The Last Battle in which Susan doesn't get to the garden because she's more interested in boys, make-up and nylons than Aslan. Oh, and the description of Eustace Clarence Scrubbs' parents in which their vegetarianism and teetotallism is held up to scorn...
but both those seem the opposite to the example you gave.
Not a devotee of eighties teen fiction, but I can think of numerous things from school stories etc - spots indicate a flawed character, smoking indicates bad morals (until you hit eighteen, when it is perfectly all right), it's fine to be clever and to take on responsibilities at school, but all real Chalet School girls marry doctors and have huge families (in the Abbey books they marry the peer who lives in the castle next door, but in both cases it is essential to have lots of twins). Naturally they can afford servants to look after same, leaving them free to deal with avalanches, rabid dogs, stroppy new girls. Oh, and being too bookish is another sign of being unhealthy and morbid (see especially Eustacia goes to the Chalet School).
(Incidentally - has anyone else seen the Mary-Kate and Ashley books? I had a look at one the other day, and in the picure on the cover the girls have the complexions and under-eye shadows of thirty-year-olds - something very wrong there) |
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