Talk:Brenda (The Boy That Time Forgot)

I think this article needs to be heavily-rewritten, or more probably divided into two separate articles.

"The Boy That Time Forgot" is set in 1868, when Beatrice Mapp is a mature woman and Brenda a chirpy cockney maidservant. "The Bride That Time Forgot" establishes Beatrice Mapp as born in 1878. There is nothing in "The Boy" to suggest that Brenda is the Bride of Frankenstein as the Brenda in the Brenda and Effie novels is.

Paul Magrs tends to reuse ideas and concepts without keeping them in continuity with each other (the Christmas Hotel setup from the contemporary Brenda & Effie novels is reused for a Sherlock Holmes short story set a century previously; "To the Devil - a Diva!"'s character Karla Sorensen reappears in "Helles Belles" in a smiilar context but the two books having nothing to do with each other and don't even repay the reader for reading both); Brenda in "The Boy" may be a nod to Brenda & Effie but there's nothing in the licensed Doctor Who side to establish them as identifiable. It may be best to keep this article referring to the character from "The Boy", and then refer readers on to a separate article for the Brenda who appears in Magrs's other books.