Gillian of the Chalet School
Author | : Carol Allan |
Publisher | : Chalet School |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2018-03-20 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781847452344 |
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Author | : Carol Allan |
Publisher | : Chalet School |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2018-03-20 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781847452344 |
Author | : Elinor Mary Brent-Dyer |
Publisher | : HarperCollins (UK) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Chalet School (Imaginary organization) |
ISBN | : 9780006905158 |
When they arrive at The Chalet School, the Lintons are as different as two sisters can be. Gentle and thoughtful Gillian soon settles down and makes friends, but wilful Joyce refuses to obey school rules or respect classroom honour. Problems come to a head when Joyce organizes a midnight feast.
Author | : Elinor M Brent-Dyer |
Publisher | : Chalet School |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019-08-27 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781847452559 |
Author | : Elinor M. Brent-Dyer |
Publisher | : Alien Ebooks |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2023-05-22 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1667623273 |
Inspired by a vacation to the Austrian Alps, Elinor M. Brent-Dyer wrote The School at the Chalet, launching a series that would span more than 60 books. The series follows the adventures of a boarding school set in the picturesque Swiss Alps. The series begins with The School at the Chalet (1925), where readers are introduced to Miss Madge Bettany, a young woman who decides to start a school for girls in the Swiss mountains. The series then chronicles the growth and evolution of the school, as well as the trials and triumphs of its students.
Author | : Chaz Brenchley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2021-05-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781913892104 |
Mars, the Red Planet, farthest flung outpost of the British Empire. Under the benevolent reign of the Empress Eternal, commerce and culture are flourishing along the banks of the great canals, and around the shores of the crater lakes. But this brave new world is not as safe as it might seem. The Russians, unhappy that Venus has proved far less hospitable, covet Britain's colony. And the Martian creatures, while not as intelligent and malevolent as HG Wells had predicted, are certainly dangerous to the unwary. What, then, of the young girls of the Martian colony? Their brothers might be sent to Earth for education at Eton and Oxbridge, but girls are made of sterner stuff. Be it unreasonable parents, Russian spies, or the deadly Martian wildlife, no challenge is beyond the resourceful girls of the Crater School.
Author | : Elinor M. Brent-Dyer |
Publisher | : Alien Ebooks |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2023-07-25 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 166762430X |
Elinor M. Brent-Dyer was born Gladys Eleanor May Dyer on April 6, 1894 in South Shields, in the northeast of England. She wrote over a hundred books of children’s literature during her life. From lower middle-class roots, she went to a small private school and became a teacher after attending the City of Leeds Training College. As a teacher, she worked at both public and private schools, and even as a governess. She had an interest in the theater, and her first book Gerry Goes to School (the first in her La Rochelle series) was written in 1922 --for the child actress Hazel Bainbridge. About this time, inspired by a vacation to the Austrian Alps, she wrote The School at the Chalet in 1923 (the first in her Chalet School series). Brent-Dyer continued to teach and tried rather unsuccessfully to run her own school from 1938 to 1948. After this, she quit teaching but continued writing until her death on September 20, 1969 in Redhill, Surrey.
Author | : Owen Dudley Edwards |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 752 |
Release | : 2007-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 074862872X |
What children read in the Second World War had an immense effect on how they came of age as they faced the new world. This time was unique for British children--parental controls were often relaxed if not absent, and the radio and reading assumed greater significance for most children than they had in the more structured past or were to do in the more crowded future. Owen Dudley Edwards discusses reading, children's radio, comics, films and book-related play-activity in relation to value systems, the child's perspective versus the adult's perspective, the development of sophistication, retention and loss of pre-war attitudes and their post-war fate. British literature is placed in a wider context through a consideration of what British writing reached the USA, and vice versa, and also through an exploration of wartime Europe as it was shown to British children. Questions of leadership, authority, individualism, community, conformity, urban-rural division, ageism, class, race, and gender awareness are explored. In this incredibly broad-ranging book, covering over 100 writers, Owen Dudley Edwards looks at the literary inheritance when the war broke out and asks whether children's literary diet was altered in the war temporarily or permanently. Concerned with the effects of the war as a whole on what children could read during the war and what they made of it, he reveals the implications of this for the world they would come to inhabit.
Author | : Elinor Mary Brent-Dyer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781847450456 |
Author | : Elinor Mary Brent-Dyer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Julia Briggs |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 541 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1351910035 |
The astonishing success of J.K. Rowling and other contemporary children's authors has demonstrated how passionately children can commit to the books they love. But this kind of devotion is not new. This timely volume takes up the challenge of assessing the complex interplay of forces that have created the popularity of children's books both today and in the past. The essays collected here ask about the meanings and values that have been ascribed to the term 'popular'. They consider whether popularity can be imposed, or if it must always emerge from children's preferences. And they investigate how the Harry Potter phenomenon fits into a repeated cycle of success and decline within the publishing industry. Whether examining eighteenth-century chapbooks, fairy tales, science schoolbooks, Victorian adventures, waif novels or school stories, these essays show how historical and publishing contexts are vital in determining which books will succeed and which will fail, which bestsellers will endure and which will fade quickly into obscurity. As they considering the fiction of Angela Brazil, Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl and J.K. Rowling, the contributors carefully analyse how authorial talent and cultural contexts combine, in often unpredictable ways, to generate - and sometimes even sustain - literary success.