REVIEW: That Boarding School Girl
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.
I enjoyed this much more than I expected, more than the Dimsie books by DFB that I’ve read of late. This is set after the first world war, when women went to Girton...and came out of it to be a chauffeur to nieces and assorted schoolgirls, and then got married. It was a time without telephones, which would have resolved one plotline.
It’s got an unusual premise: ( Read more... )
‘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.
I enjoyed this much more than I expected, more than the Dimsie books by DFB that I’ve read of late. This is set after the first world war, when women went to Girton...and came out of it to be a chauffeur to nieces and assorted schoolgirls, and then got married. It was a time without telephones, which would have resolved one plotline.
It’s got an unusual premise: ( Read more... )