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#JaneHorrocks The most notable difference from the book is that the boy is restored to human form at the end of the story by The Grand High Witch's assistant (a character who does not appear in the book), who had renounced her former evil. Dahl regarded the film as "utterly appalling".

During the editing process, the editor Stephen Roxburgh told Dahl that he was concerned about misogyny in the book. However, he dismissed these concerns by explaining he was not afraid of offending women. The feminist critic Catherine Itzin claimed that the book 'is how Boys learn to become Men who HATE Women'.

Jemma Crew of the Newstatesman considers it an "unlikely source of inspiration for feminists". The Times article "Not in Front of the Censors" suggests that the LEAST interesting thing to a child about A Witch is that they APPEAR to look like A Woman, and even offers the perspective that a witch might be a VERY feminist role model to a young school girl.

Dahl based the novel on his OWN childhood experiences, with the character of the grandmother modelled on Sofie Dahl, the author’s mother. The Author was “well satisfied” by his work on The Witches, a sentiment which literary biographer Robert Carrick believes may have come from the fact that the novel was a departure from Dahl’s usual “all-problem-solving finish.” Dahl did not work on the novel alone; he was aided by editor Stephen Roxburgh, who helped rework The Witches. Roxburgh’s advice was very extensive and covered areas such as improving plots, tightening up Dahl’s writing, and re-inventing characters. Soon after its publication, the novel received compliments for its illustrations by Quentin Blake

Analysis : Due to the complexity of The Witches and its departure from a typical Dahl novel, several academics have analysed the work. One perspective offered by Castleton University professor James Curtis suggests that the REJECTION of the novel by PARENTS is caused by its focus on “CHILD-HATE” and Dahl’s reluctance to SHIELD children from such a reality. The scholar argues that the book showcases a treatment of children that is NOT ACTUALLY WORSE than historical and modern examples; however, Dahl’s determination to expose to his young readers The TRUTH can be controversial. 

Despite Society occasionally making progress in its treatment of children, Curtis argues that different aspects of Child-Hate displayed in Dahl’s work are based on REAL WORLD EXAMPLES. As the boy’s grandmother informs him, The Witches usually strike children when they are ALONE; Curtis uses this information from the novel to connect to the historical problem of child abandonment. As children have been maimed or KILLED due to abandonment, children are harmed by witches in the novel when they have been left ALONE.