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The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The first written in a series of eccentric gothic adventure stories for children by Joan Aiken. The series is generally referred to by the same name (that or the 'Wolves Chronicles').The twelve books feature a changing line-up of main protagonists, the most frequently recurring being cockney urchin action girl, Dido Twite, who have adventures in an alternate history of the nineteenth century. Often the villains are Hanovarian conspirators, desperate to replace the incumbent James III with George Of Hanover. Other common threads are the motif of the wolves, the presence of awful nineteenth-century working conditions and a certain English barminess about the plots.The books are part parody of, and part homage to, Victorian literature. They are a little like a prototype A Series of Unfortunate Events and in turn it is likely they are part of the very canon Daniel Handler was parodying and paying homage to with that series. Philip Pullman is also a fan and the influence of Dido Twite is clear in his own urchin action girl, Lyra Silvertongue.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); }) The Wolves Chronicles (in narrative order): The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1963) Black Hearts in Battersea (1964) Nightbirds on Nantucket (1966) The Stolen Lake (1981) Dangerous Games, published in the UK as Limbo Lodge (1999) The Whispering Mountain (1968), a side-story simultaneous to The Cuckoo Tree The Cuckoo Tree (1971) Dido and Pa (1986) Is Underground (British title: Is) (1992) Cold Shoulder Road (1995) Midwinter Nightingale (2003) The Witch of Clatteringshaws (2005)(Note: Midnight Is a Place (1976), though set in the same fictional city as Is, isn't usually counted as part of the series.) | |
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Card-Carrying Villain: Most of the series' antagonists, especially Miss Slighcarp of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase and Nightbirds on Nantucket. | |
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Little Miss Badass | |
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Little Miss Badass: Most any adolescent female character the series features - but particularly Dido. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: most of the locations are pretty awful, particularly for children, but the children seem to regard their surroundings quite cheerfully on the whole. Dido pines for stinking, dangerous London even when in the relative idyll of Nantucket. | |
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Iconic Sequel Character | |
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Iconic Sequel Character: Dido, who went on to be the central character of the series, didn't appear at all in the first book. | |
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Anachronism Stew | |
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Anachronism Stew: See the page quote. | |
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Apathetic Citizens | |
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Apathetic Citizens: Justified in that the terrible things taking place in the books - forced child labour; horribly dangerous factories and mines etc - are barely exaggerated dangers of real nineteenth-century life, and realistically only a few people are interested in, or capable of, taking a stand against them. | |
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Literary Allusion Title | |
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Literary Allusion Title: It's possible Aiken was invoking Dido and Aeneas with the title Dido and Pa. | |
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Parental Abandonment | |
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Parental Abandonment: Either the protagonists are orphaned (Simon, Sylvia etc), believe themselves to be ( Bonnie etc), have neglectful parents (Dido, Is etc), or their parents are removed from the action in some way (Dutiful Penitence). | |
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Evil Teacher | |
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Evil Teacher: Miss Slighcarp again - though of course she was never a real teacher. | |
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Deadly Euphemism | |
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Deadly Euphemism: In the original novel, when Bonnie and Sylvia overhear Miss Slighcarp discussing the planned murder of their parents, she refers to it as simply "the event." | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: On occasion, for example in Is Underground, Is only succeeds in finding one of the missing boys she set out to alive, and her grandfather dies as well. | |
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Honor Before Reason | |
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Honor Before Reason: Is Twite seems to have a particularly acute sense of duty, traveling to the horribly dangerous town of Blastburn/Holdernesse because she promised a dying uncle she barely knew she would find a cousin she doesn't know either. This is commented upon by several characters. | |
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Deserted Island | |
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Deserted Island: In Black Hearts in Battersea | |
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Raised by Wolves | |
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Raised by Wolves: In Black Hearts in Battersea, Sophie mentions having been raised by otters for a time. | |
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Named After Somebody Famous | |
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Named After Somebody Famous: ...Meanwhile, Dido's namesake doesn't seem at all relevant to her. In-universe she is named after a canal boat. | |
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Orphan's Ordeal | |
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Orphan's Ordeal: All over the place, whether the orphans are literal or de facto. | |
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Bizarrchitecture | |
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Bizarrchitecture: The London residence of the Duke of Battersea. After years in the building, he commented it looked like a giant pink blancmange and, irritated, died. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: A lot of Dickens-style naming: Slighcarp, Grimshaw etc. Bonnie is bonny. The surname Twite belongs to two characters (Dido and Is) often described in bird-like terms, and their father is a songwriter. Is's name connects her, in-universe, to a drowned town of the same name which becomes relevant by the climax of Is Underground... | |
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Punny Name | |
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Punny Name: In universe, Is. It's mentioned to be the name of a legendary drowned town (which becomes relevant to Is Twite come the end of her eponymous story). The villain of the same story also threatens to turn her from 'Is' into 'Was'. | |
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Consummate Liar | |
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Consummate Liar: Dido's pretty circumspect, and is able to dissemble and lie without much trouble or guilt. | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
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What Happened to the Mouse?: the fact of shifting protagonists and a large cast means threads are often left open-ended. Before writing Nightbirds On Nantucket Joan Aiken was inundated with letters from fans with this reaction regarding Dido Twite, who is last seen in Black Hearts in Battersea clinging to driftwood in the middle of a stormy sea before disappearing and being presumed dead. | |
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Ironic Nursery Tune | |
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Ironic Nursery Tune: The chapters of Is Underground are headed with lines from nursery rhymes which emphasise how much of a crapsack world Blastburn is compared to the 'Playland' the children were promised. | |
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Never Was This Universe | |
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Never Was This Universe: The setting is more Alternate History than Alternate Universe, but the occasional supernatural elements like telepathy and werewolves veer towards this trope. | |
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Sweet Polly Oliver | |
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Sweet Polly Oliver: Bonnie from Willoughby Chase, and later Dido, occasionally live up to the trope. Dido does not usually actively disguise herself as a boy but since she wears her hair short and prefers trousers to skirts she is often mistaken for a boy, and notes that this sometimes comes in useful. Sophie often disguises herself as her brother Simon once he is the Duke of Battersea and there are conflicting demands on his time. In Limbo Lodge (known in the US as Dangerous Games), Dido realises early on that the apparently male Doctor Talisman is in fact female. | |
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Alternate History | |
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Alternate History: yep. | |
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Adults Are Useless | |
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Adults Are Useless: Even the more helpful and benevolent adult characters tend to be some way off the quick wits of the child/teenaged heroes. | |
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming | |
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: For the first three books anyway | |
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Abusive Parents | |
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Abusive Parents: Dido's parents are neglectful of her to the point of cruelty and her father in particular does not hesitate to imprison and endanger his daughter in the name of Hanovarian conspiracies. Much worse off though is another Twite daughter, Is, who is used by her mother as a drudge and suffers casual violence and verbal abuse from both her mother and father. It's never acknowledged outright by the pair that she is their child, probably since she is the product of an extramarital affair, a fact which might explain their disregard. An example of an abusive guardian is Miss Slighcarp, to Bonnie and Sylvia in The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, and to Dido and Dutiful Penitence in Nightbirds on Nantucket. | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: rather surprising for a series usually filed in the 9-12 age range, the word 'bastard' is used as an insult on at least one occasion. | |
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Badass Bookworm | |
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Badass Bookworm: Owen in The Whispering Mountain. | |
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Nice Guy | |
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Nice Guy: Simon, who acts with decency and courage throughour his story. He was raised on a Poor Farm, and then lived half-wild in the woods, before coming to London in Black Hearts in Battersea, but this doesn't stop him from being a stand-up guy. He is in the tradition of heroes like David Copperfield and even folkloric young seekers-of-fortune. His sister Sophie has had an equally trying upbringing: raised by otters, found and cared for by a kindly old gentleman only to be taken away and herself sent to the Poor Farm - but she too is unfailingly decent, kind and courageous. | |
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Luke, I Am Your Father | |
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Luke, I Am Your Father: Simon and Sophie turn out to be the long-lost relatives of the Duke of Battersea, and Simon his heir | |
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Social Services Does Not Exist | |
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Social Services Does Not Exist: no one's looking out for these urchins. | |
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Steampunk | |
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Steampunk: sort of. There are enough anachronisms to the nineteenth-century settings to invoke this - see the page quote. | |
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Competence Zone | |
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Competence Zone: Almost all the child or adolescent characters are sure to be quick-witted and ready to see through Hanoverian plots, with adults much less inclined to be much use. Some books even formalise this to some extent - in Dido and Pa the urchins of London form a network called 'the birthday club' which is instrumental in the protagonists' victory. In Is Underground the child mine-workers form a telepathic bond together which saves the day. In both cases there are only a few adult characters open and clever enough to be members. | |
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Action Girl | |
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Action Girl: Oooh yes. Pretty much any adolescent female character, even if they start out meek, and most adult female characters as well. Of particular note is Dido Twite, hero of seven of the books, and her half-sister Is, who follows her lead. | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure: Good King Jim is an all round good egg; kind and down to earth. There's generally a pretty even balance of authority figures who are reasonable, those are diabolical, and those with a mixture of vices and virtues. Subsequent English kings follow form, especially Simon Bakerloo for the brief time he is king. Aristrocrats tend to be pretty maganamous as well. Interestingly, non-hereditary leaders (e.g. Roy Twite in Is) and foreign monarchs tend to be less trustworthy. In Black Hearts in Battersea, the Duke is more or less this trope as well. | |
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You Are Number 6 | |
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You Are Number 6: When Sylvia and Bonnie are sent to Mrs. Brisket's Orphanage of Fear in the original book, they are told that none of the children there have names and that they are now number ninety-eight and ninety-nine respectively. | |
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Chekhov M.I.A. | |
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Chekhov M.I.A.: In Black Hearts in Battersea, Simon is expecting to meet Dr. Field, who seems to have disappeared... | |
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Devil in Plain Sight | |
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Devil in Plain Sight: Miss Slighcarp. | |
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Have a Gay Old Time | |
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Have a Gay Old Time: The meanings of nineteenth-century slang has shifted somewhat. When the stories are in London, the characters frequently eat 'faggots', and when introduced Is is most frequently referred to as 'the Slut' meaning, in this case, drudge or maid-of-all-work. | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: She might play fast and loose with history, but Joan Aiken clearly knew her stuff regarding nineteenth-century England and even details you might assume are flights of fancy can turn out to be based on fact. An evident interest in nineteenth-century nursery rhymes and playground games on the part of the author often comes to the fore. | |
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