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The Head Girl’s Deputy: Brenda Page. 1930, Cassell

This book features a lot of the elements you’d expect or hope to find in a girls boarding school story, even a new girl whose ideas of school life have been influenced by reading school stories, although that isn’t a strong strand. Up to the end, ( Read more... )

Norah O’Flanigan, Prefect: Maud S. Forsey, Nelson

Tremadon House, a high school for girls on the outskirts of London has a peculiar school year. It seems ( Read more... )

Last week, I went away for a few days and these are some of the books that I read then:

The School on the Moor: Angela Brazil

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Reread: A Countess Below Stairs: Eva Ibbotson

(I think I will reread all my Ibbotsons as a project.)

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Penelope’s Prefects: Judith Carr

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Dimsie Goes to School: Dorita Fairlie Bruce. Oxford Univerity Press. Reprinted, 1949.

This is the first of three Dimsie books that I have to read...

And so, we begin at the beginning. I read my first Dimsie book after reading a couple of Springdale books, and my impression of the Jane Willard Foundation school was that it was always raining in comprison, and that they were always doing drills (which sounded beastly) and what kind of a name is the 'Jane Willard Foundation', wondered I. Ouf, typing it out, that opinion comes on a bit stronger than I expected. But rereading and reading more Dimsie books toned it down, and I'm glad to have the opportunity to get a fuller picture of Dimsie and 'Jane's.'. Another thing is that I was used to Dimsie as a Senior, so having her be in the Hilary Garth role is strange.

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edited for typos on 12.1.10