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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[andi_horton]

I have a book about girls away at school but it was written before 1914; I bought it so I could write The Maps Game a bit better the third time around. You are welcome to riffle through it when you are here, though, and see if anything is useable. It is very funny, though I think not in a way it was meant to be.

We can go see VDT if you want! But it won't be the same, because I was waiting for you and now it is all ruined and not what it could have been because you didn't wait for me . . . it's like a horrible, horrible parody of all those warning lectures they gave us in youth group, isn't it?

[intrikate88]

Well, I shall give that a look, then, and see if it helps. I dunno. This is such a meandery one-shot of an idea it seems silly to do in-depth research, but otherwise it probably won't work right. Sigh.

Oh, no, sweetie, seeing it for your first time and my second will still have us sitting there awkwardly and going "Hmm, I thought it was going to be a bit... more, or something, than that" just like our mutual first times would have been. Also you know I need companionship for movie watching since I have more commentary than MST3K, and Derek isn't quite as expansive a sounding board as you are.

[andi_horton]

If it's only for a one shot I can probably just dredge up all my Naughtiest Girl books and let you skim through those. I am sure that Being Away at School was much worse than Enid Blyton would lead any of us to believe, but she certainly gives a reasonable approximation of the set up, if that is what you are after. Meals and sleeping arrangements, and all that.

What research is it you were looking for, exactly? What is it you intend to wreak upon the world?

I guess we can still watch it together. We need some sort of antidote for our traditional holiday viewing-and-snarking-upon of Twilight, after all . . . and don't worry, I am totally not going to make some joke about your first time being with your brother . . . except I sort of just did . . . oh, I am petty, but feel better.

[intrikate88]

An approximation sounds like about what I am after. I can't say for sure until I start writing I guess... I have vague ideas about Lucy as being very connected to the natural side of Narnia and how that works out when she's stuck in a boarding school after Dawn Treader, with themes sort of divided by school terms. We'll see how that goes.

You DO realize we are two Twilight snarkings behind, right? We'll have to catch up.

And as for that joke, I take back my remark about all your comments amusing me. Go fu- I mean, you spend wayyy too much time around 12-year-olds. :P

[andi_horton]

I like themed school terms. We shall see what we can scrounge up.

Yeah I tried to watch one of them without you, the one where he goes to sparkle publically or something, and I couldn't do it. I need my half-drunk sister, her helpless captive and my Partner in Sark all lined up beside me in order to survive.

Hey, now, I still OWE you after that camel joke two years ago. You have to give me that one, at least.

[andi_horton]

. . . . hahaha typo made of win, do you appreciate that? I want to say I did it on purpose but it was a complete accident . . .

[intrikate88]

Well *I* thought that was on purpose.

Ooh, if we're watching at the house we can do the Twilight drinking game!

[andi_horton]

Claire and Jordan are on board with the idea of coming to VDT with us, so that could be fun . . . I gotta tell you though, if we want them to watch Twilight too, I think we're going to have to get Jordan pretty drunk before the fact.