Underground Rivers - University of New Mexico

Chapter 23 -- Girls, Too!
Polly of Pebbly Pit (1922) by Lillian Elizabeth Roy surely sounds like a girls' story and indeed it
is.
"Well, look out in front; there's a ledge cleft in the side of the
mountain wall. Between it and the other lower ledge is a canyon
that might be the one Montresor found on his up-climb. Yonder the
slope meets the chasm and above is the steep sides leading to Top
Notch Trail. Could not the land-slide have buried this wall and then
a great wash-out have cleared it again? If we only had a gushing
mountain stream pouring from the cliff-side the setting would be
complete!"
Barbara gasped, but Polly clapped her hands. "Nolla, that's it! The
subterranean stream we found in there. Some big upheaval
changed its outlet, or maybe this gold vein runs clean through and
Montresor's claim is staked opposite this side -- just where the river
pours out. We must look over that side to-morrow."
Edith Olivier's first novel, The Love-Child (1927), a story of a
neurotic, possessive spinster haunted by an imaginary child, was one
of the genre of fantasy novels popular in the early 20th century. Most
of Olivier's works drew on her affluent background and showed a
curious interest in split personalities. Olivier is parhaps better known,
however, for being a confidante and hostess in the her day's
aesthetic, upper-class homosexual circles.
Scarcely noted in her biographies is her effort in children's literature,
The Underground River (1928). She's labeled today as a feminist
pioneer of unrealized literary potential.
Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) is a film classic, the first full-length
animated color feature with sound
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Disguised as a stooped hag, the wicked
queen poisons an apple by dipping it into
a boiling caldron. Charon-like, she
pushes off in her canoe down a
subterranean waterway to deliver the
slowing fruit to Snow White.
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