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First Term, Worst Term: E.M. De Foubert (Oxford, inscribed 1935)

This book starts off like a family story in which youngsters have to survive on their own in difficult financial straits but then becomes a school story. ( Read more... )

Penny in Search of a School: E.M. de Foubert Oxford University Press 1939

This is rather a remarkable book, as the title suggests. The events that take place are extraordinary, the characters are exaggerated, but the writer seems to know it and not to care, because she just wants to tell a rollicking good story. ( Read more... )