That Boarding School Girl: Dorita Fairlie Bruce (Oxford University Press)

‘But that was not the way of the Lower Fifth, who did nothing by halves, except, perhaps, their lessons’ (p. 153).It amuses me that OUP published this when Girton gets name checked ( Read more... )

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A Term on Trial: Mary Gervaise Cassell (First published in 1929)

It’s been far too long since I’ve read a proper girls own book, by which I mean a boarding school story, and this one features a lot of staples of the genre.

Barbara ‘Bobby’ Laurence ( Read more... )

The Chalet School and the Lintons: Elinor M. Brent-Dyer Chambers 1940 reprint

I’d previously read this story as split into two by Armada. It was nice to have it all in one hardback volume, although I managed to slosh some coffee over it at one point.

The story is that Gillian and Joyce Linton( Read more... )