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I got hold of a Chambers hardback copy of this book (a reprint) - I wasn't struck by anything additional that wasn't in the paperback edition, but I haven't compared page by page or anything. (ETA: My Armada paperback is a 'revised edition' which was first published in 1970. Still couldn't tell you how revised it is, though.)

In this book, ( Read more... )

Edited on 17.1.14.

Crossposts: http://feather-ghyll.livejournal.com/96307.html

One thing that I learned from reading A. M. W.’s ‘The Kettle of Fortune’ in Blackie’s Girls’ Annual is that trespassing is all right if you are posh and English, but not if you are poor and Scottish. Yes, I'm still working through that annual.

The Coming of Age of the Chalet School: Elinor M. Brent-Dyer

Reading ‘Excitements at the Chalet School’ inspired me to read ‘Coming of Age’, the next in the series. I have an Armada paperback copy that I bought back in the day when Chalet School books cost £1.95, and I had a habit of underlining all the Chalet girls’ names that appeared in my copy. Fortunately, I only kept up that bad habit for the first chapter, perhaps because I realised that in this book, of all Chalet School books, where so many Old Girls come back for a visit to join in the school’s celebrations, that it would be a bit much.

So, what did I think, now that I am closer in age to those Old Girls? ( Read more... )

Crossposts: http://feather-ghyll.livejournal.com/91620.html

Excitements at the Chalet School: Elinor M. Brent-Dyer Armada, 1987

It has been years and years since I last read a Chalet School book or got my mitts on one of the few in the series that I hadn’t read (a slightly longer list than that of the ones I own thanks to libraries and friends). I genuinely think that I never read this before, ( Read more... )

Crossposts: http://feather-ghyll.livejournal.com/88252.html

I’ve just come back from a holiday in a city in northern England. I was asked what I’d do: ‘Visit the historical sites, drink copious amounts of coffee and some shopping,’ I answered vaguely. Then I went and researched where the second-hand bookshops were rather than anything else.

I was mildly hysterical after walking into a shop that had first editions of Elinor M. Brent-Dyer and Dorita Fairlie Bruces for £50, £195 and £300. At least, I was hysterical after I closed my jaw again. Later, I saw an Elsie J. Oxenham for a mere £40. As someone who has kittens while considering spending more than £10 on a book - and you should see the mental gymnastics involved when I decided to justify spending that much - WELL. In the first shop, jostled among these highly-priced mintish-condition rarities was a girls own book going for six pounds. I already owned it.

Anyway, I managed to get several books, all for less than £6, elsewhere, some of which are girls own or Vintage Children as Oxfam would have it. I spent less than £40 all told on them! And I did visit historical sites taking coffee breaks and really enjoyed myself.

Monica Turns Up Trumps: Elinor M. Brent-Dyer. Lutterworth Press 1944

I read this at the start of the month, but only got around to finishing typing up my review tonight.

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Saturday was a successful book shopping day in that I got the one book I was missing in a series I've been reading, a Phyllis Whitney for 50p AND a non Chalet School EMBD. The shopkeeper directed me to two Chalet School hardbacks with dust jackets, but I own them already, okay, in paperback, but I'd spent a lot of money on other things that day, and had popped into the book shop on a whim.

And then I watched tennis. ( Read more... )

French page dedicated to Eric Leyland. It states that Leyland was a friend of Captain W. Johns - author of the Biggles books - and also wrote under the pseudonym of Elizabeth Tarrant (I didn't know this, I have one of 'her' books!). There's a full looking bibiliography - though they warn that it isn't necessarily complete, due to the numerous pseuds that he used - with pictures of covers. This suggests that there is a series of Stanton's books (I wonder if they are about Statnon's in its incarnation before 'Stanton's comes of Age' or after?
This would suggest that it's after.)

Details on the casting for the new Ballet Shoes adaptation. ( My reaction. ) Also, I really need to reread the book.

The Fossil Cupboard - a message board to discuss Streatfeild's books.

And for Ransome fans, on lj, there's

ransomefans. (I saw a Swallows and Amazons mug of the classic cover, which I had a bit of a struggle over, but couldn't justify buying it right now, 15 % opening weekend discount or no. This was at the new Borders.

P'raps I can engineer a mug-related accident...

Wikipedia offers this list of fictional works invented by EBD (it hurts me a little that they are not chronologically ordered).

astralis on new girls, honour and girls who don't fit in in girls school stories.

News of two Famous Five productions. Am I the only one who sees the major flaw in looking at the characters' lives decades later? ( Read more... ). Fan Lucy Mangan weighs in on the subject.

The Series Fic yahoo group - dedicated to exploring British children's series fiction of the 20th and 21st century.

Current Music: Rugby World Cup commentary

( On missing out the historicity of Girls Own stories, fifty years on from Elinor M. Brent-Dyer's schoolgirls, who were fifty years on from L.T. Meade's )

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6	7	8	9	10	11	12
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20	21	22	23	24	25	26
27	28	29	30	31

Entries tagged with elinor m. brent-dyer

REREADING: The Chalet School and Jo

REREADING: The Coming of Age of the Chalet School

REVIEW: Excitements at the Chalet School

PERSONAL: Bookshopping adventures

REVIEW: Monica Turns up Trumps

WIMBLEDON: Day six

LINKS: Mixed bag today.

DISCUSSION: Historicity and context, or lack thereof

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