SA Swallows and Amazons, 1930. Up until the start of World War 2 England still had very rigid class structures, whereas the middle and upper classes were seen to be superior. They were better educated with clear social hierarchies. website 45-75 Paperbacks had still not been published. This fantasy book is about a holiday tale filled with the adventures of two families of children, holidays at this time would have been only accessible to the middle and upper classes. Both families appear to be higher middle class as the Walkers have a nurse p9 and the Blacketts have a cook, however, the role of family relationships and values within the story portrayed middle class families in the 1930’s Sg 166. The use of typical middle class language of the
