research question.

[intrikate88]

Does anybody know where I can find some good research material about what a girls' boarding school in England would be like in the 1940s? I've been looking up school websites but for some reason they're short on good gritty history. rthstewart or be_themoon , have you come across anything?

Somebody is probably going to mention Enid Blyton, who I haven't read before but

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[intrikate88]

Yes, I saw the film. Arghleblarghle. I'm hardly a purist; I know the challenges of adaptation and how novel to film adaptations are an art form themself, and I have extensively written papers on the fact. HOWEVER. It is a real achievement for a film to be so extensively worked over that I disagree with the interpretation of every scene. Also, the word 'undragoned' never happened and that is a shame.

Frankly, I just would have cut at least three lords/stops from the plot, tbh.

Anyway, my disgruntlement aside, I'm just looking for basic environmental info, I think, the sort that anyone just know if they read the boarding school genre of fiction, probably. Stuff like who sleeps where and what the pecking order is, what the schedule is like, what food they eat, how much freedom they have, if everywhere has the same school terms with the same term names and what are those term names (this is quite important structurally to my idea)? It's probably not all like St Trinians, though Lucy at that school is an amusing thought. I expect that because of the war there is a bit more freedom, with fewer teachers and older girls working outside the school, probably.