The Twins at St Clare's

[donnaimmaculata]

There's been some discussions on Enid Blyton on my flist lately, and then shocolate linked to this article, on which I wanted to comment, but then the comment kinda expanded

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[fourth_rose]

I was totally baffled when I found out how much of the "Hanni&Nanni" books wasn't by the original author! Do you know if the same was the case for the "Dolly" series (no idea what the original English title was)?

The embedding works for me, btw. (God help us, a film??)

[donnaimmaculata]

Dolly = Malory Towers! From what I understand, Malory Towers is actually more popular in England than St Clare's! Not surprisingly perhaps, as the latter only has six books.

I've no idea whether Dolly was written by German authors, too. I remember that Dolly became "Hausmutter" (matron, probably?) in the end - perhaps that wasn't in the original? Maybe some Brit will know. Or Wikipedia.

With Heino Ferch, apparently. I must admit, I am morbidly curious.

[donnaimmaculata]

I've never been much into Malory Towers, and Darrell/Dolly becoming matron is the only thing I remember. I didn't know she her real name was Darrell, either!

[fourth_rose]

I think she even ended up being Headmistress at the very end, after 40 books or so, so I guess there might have been ghostwriters at it as well ;)

[donnaimmaculata]

I added an ETA about later novels, actually ;-) Apparently, the post-school novels were written by ghostwriters - who sound like Snape/Hermione or Snape/Harry shippers to me.