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Dimsie Moves Up: Dorita Fairlie Bruce. Oxford, reprint 1935.

This is an important book in the canon of girls own books, ( Read more... )

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... )

Dimsie and the Jane Willard Foundation (The Dimsie short stories): Dorita Fairlie Bruce, Girls Gone By, 2011

I first came across Dorita Fairlie Bruce via the Springdale books, and until I bought this collection, I owned an equal amount of Dimsie and Springdale books. If I ever do get a complete collection of the Dimsie books, I should probably read them in order!

Anyway, this is a complete collection of the stories about Dimsie and her school written by Fairlie Bruce for various annuals. They are ( Read more... )

I mentioned this book when I was reviewing The School on the Moor, which is about Tabitha (Toby)'s earlier adventures. I had forgotten I'd owned it and couldn't find it anywhere. Well, recently, I found the copy - it had slipped under a bookcase, essentially, and was hidden by boxes - and decided to reread it. I think I'm still missing a book or two in this series, though.

Toby at Tibbs Cross: Dorita Fairlie Bruce. Oxford 1944

This could have been titled 'Toby's War Work'; ( Read more... )

Over the weekend, I also reread Princess Charming, so I'll post my thoughts about that soon.

Dimsie Among the Prefects: Dorita Fairlie Bruce. Oxford. Reprinted 1949

I thought that I had bought four Dimsies in one go, but it was only three, so, after this, only one to go.

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Anyway, I am currently reading A Company of Swans, and it's delightful.

Researching for this review, I found out that one of its sequels, Toby of Tibbs' Cross, is that book featuring a Land Girl that I was thinking of the other day. The fact that I didn't remember that I'd read about the further adventures of this character doesn't worry me particularly, but as it wasn't on my main list of girls' own stories, that suggests that it is not stored with the rest of those books, or it wasn't when I made the list to try to avoid buying second copies of books I already own.

(PS: The only tennis I saw yesterday was the entertaining Bryan twins n their way to an easy victory. Doubles always fascinates me, apart from the rat-a-tat volleying, with its psychology. There is some tennis in the book below, but it's mainly a plot device.)

Anyway:

The School on the Moor: Dorita Fairlie Bruce Oxford 1934 reprint
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