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Originally Posted by Shellfish
As for edited books, last year I was reading about the authors of the Nancy Drew books, and it turned out that many were revised in the 1960s to lose offensive stereotypes in the originals from the 1920s and 1930s. I have to admit that this made me want to get hold of one of the older versions just to see how bad they were, because I'd probably only read the newer versions.
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I have a couple Bobbsey Twins (from the same writing stable) that are 1950s editions, and they refer to their "colored" maid and handyman. It's more a sort of patronizing attitude than anything else. Although one also involved supposed Gypsies and I don't think that flies nowadays either.
As far as the Brontes, I think it took me 2 months to read Jane Eyre - and this was back when I plowed through multiple books in a week.