I have just been looking up the dates of Blyton's Famous Five, with an eye to the possibility that Forest was writing against the stereotype of dauntless plucky kidz defeat villain of deepest dye, but the series seems to start just a few years later. The Secret Seven were operating earlier.
However, there are various in-text hints, similar to those flagging up school story cliches in the Kingscote books, that that genre was already well established before the Five went to wherever they went first.
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Date: 2014-06-28 07:43 am (UTC)However, there are various in-text hints, similar to those flagging up school story cliches in the Kingscote books, that that genre was already well established before the Five went to wherever they went first.