Entries tagged with review: brent-dyer

Crossposts: https://feather-ghyll.livejournal.com/180774.html

Entry tags:

REVIEW: The School at Skelton Hall

The School at Skelton Hall: Elinor M. Brent-Dyer, Girls Gone By Publishers, 2008

I almost feel unworthy of posting my reaction to ‘The School at Skelton Hall’, because after I read it, I went back to read Ruth Jolly’s considered introduction for this GGBP edition, which discusses the plot, setting and the creation of a new school by E B-D for the second time in a career that spawned the famous Chalet School. My mind had kept stumbling over the similarity between Skelton and Skeleton! So please read what follows with that in mind. ( Read more... )

Crossposts: https://feather-ghyll.livejournal.com/161920.html

Entry tags:

REVIEW: A Head Girl's Difficulties

A Head Girl’s Difficulties: Elinor M. Brent-Dyer Chambers, Reprint 1957

The passenger sitting next to me on a train observed that I was really enjoying this. I suppose I was, but I was a little frustrated with the book overall, because ( Read more... )

Crossposts: https://feather-ghyll.livejournal.com/152489.html

Entry tags:

REVIEW: Challenge for the Chalet School

Challenge for the Chalet School: Elinor M. Brent-Dyer, Armada, 1991

Oh, look, I’m quibbling about titles again, but perhaps ‘Challenges for the Chalet School’ would have been better, with ( Read more... )

Crossposts: http://feather-ghyll.livejournal.com/146366.html

Entry tags:

REVIEW: The Chalet School Does It Again

The Chalet School Does It Again: Elinor M. Brent-Dyer. Armada, 1990

I am excruciatingly slowly completing my Chalet School collection, and yes, with the aid of abridged Armada publications.

The title of this story always ( Read more... )

Crossposts: http://feather-ghyll.livejournal.com/138854.html

Entry tags:

REVIEW: Gerry Goes to School

I haven't posted much about books so far this year, but I haven't read many books, or so it feels, but I tried to make up for it over the past weekend.

Gerry Goes to School: Elinor M. Brent-Dyer, Chambers, ‘latest reprint’ 1952.

( Read more... )

Crossposts: http://feather-ghyll.livejournal.com/130355.html

Entry tags:

REVIEW: A Thrilling Term at Janeways'

A Thrilling Term at Janeways': Elinor M. Brent-Dyer, Nelson

I found this 'School Story for Girls' ( Read more... )

Crossposts: http://feather-ghyll.livejournal.com/126751.html

Entry tags:

REVIEW: Fardingales

Fardingales: Elinor M. Brent-Dyer, Girls Gone By 2015
(originally published 1950)

As this book is associated with Chudleigh Hold (I understand some of the characters in it will cross paths with Chudleighs), I was looking out for similarities as I read. It features a family of young people, living in a large family house, the eponymous Fardingales, by the sea, which means picnics, caves and adventure. ( Read more... )

Crossposts: http://feather-ghyll.livejournal.com/121675.html

Entry tags:

REREAD: Chudleigh Hold

Chudleigh Hold: Elinor M. Brent-Dyer, Chambers, 1954

I’ve owned this copy since books were sold in charity shops for 30p, although all I remembered about it was that it was about a family gifted with outlandish names who seemed to have no connection to the Chalet School. As I’ve ordered the second book in the series from Girls Gone By, I thought it’d be a good idea to reread this in advance of its arrival.

Chudleigh Hold is ( Read more... )

Crossposts: http://feather-ghyll.livejournal.com/111716.html

Entry tags:

REREAD: Carola Storms the Chalet Schooll

Carola Storms the Chalet School: Elinor M. Brent-Dyer. 1951 (although I suspect this is a reprint) Chambers

A reread, this, because I brought a hardback copy - I had an Armada copy already – partly for sentimental reasons, as the secondhand bookshop I was buying it at was closing.

Anyhow, this is the story where ( Read more... )

Crossposts: http://feather-ghyll.livejournal.com/106478.html

Entry tags:

REREAD: The Chalet School and the Lintons

The Chalet School and the Lintons: Elinor M. Brent-Dyer Chambers 1940 reprint

I’d previously read this story as split into two by Armada. It was nice to have it all in one hardback volume, although I managed to slosh some coffee over it at one point.

The story is that Gillian and Joyce Linton( Read more... )

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

Entry tags:

REREADING: The Chalet School and Jo

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/91620.html

Entry tags:

REREADING: The Coming of Age of the Chalet School

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/88252.html

Entry tags:

REVIEW: Excitements at the Chalet School

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... )

Entry tags:

REVIEW: Monica Turns up Trumps

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.

( Read more... )