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"The stories in The Magnet are signed 'Frank Richards' and the stories in The Gem 'Martin Clifford', but a series lasting thirty years could hardly be the work of the same person every week. Consequently they have to be written in a style that is easily imitated -- an extraordinary artificial, repetitive style, quite different from anything else now existing in English literature."
-- George Orwell, "Boys' Weeklies"
"Mr Orwell finds it difficult to believe that a series running for thirty years can possibly be written by one and the same person. In the presence of such authority, I speak with diffidence: and can only say that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, I am only one person, and have never been two or three."
-- Frank Richards