International Companion Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature
found in Charlotte Yonge’s The Pillars of the House (1893), Mrs Molesworth’s The Carved Lions (1895), in which Geraldine is sent ...
becoming just the kind of resourceful and self-disciplined young men that the public schools aimed to produce. The only similar ...
Elinor M.Brent-Dyer (1894–1969), all achieved their popularity through the production of series. Elsie Jeanette Oxenham, the dau ...
(1939) are all free-standing. Some of her fictional schools are the newly established county high schools, in one of which she t ...
writing in The Magnet, he launched Greyfriars and the Famous Five of Harry Wharton, Frank Nugent, Bob Cherry, Johnny Bull and Hu ...
mixed, independent boarding schools such as Dartington, Bedales and Summerhill, but almost certainly she chose to set her first ...
books set in the school holidays, giving a rounded picture of the lives of the twins as they grow from 12 to over 14. By 1960 it ...
backgrounds come together naturally; against this background, racial attitudes and sex roles can be examined, and both these top ...
her to death. The trilogy is a significant literary achievement which shows how far the school story has come since its first ma ...
McClelland, H. (1981) Behind the Chalet School, Bognor Regis: New Horizon. Quigley, I. (1982) The Heirs of Tom Brown: The Englis ...
29 Pony Books Alison Haymonds The pony book continues in the long tradition of literature celebrating the love affair between th ...
dimensional characters and their physical appearance and personality are described in great detail. Pony stories, like other typ ...
seldom well off (which is why the children long hopelessly for ponies). Pony books are obsessed with lack of money, not wealth, ...
Perhaps it was no coincidence that Moorland Mousie was published in the same year that the Pony Club was established with the ex ...
author, Joanna Cannan, who shared her young readers’ passion for ponies and who (according to her daughter Josephine Pullein-Tho ...
School (1938), and its sequels, in which the three Chantry sisters discover the problems and pleasures of running their own stab ...
Distant Oxus was published the following year (1937). A sub-Swallows and Amazons with ponies, this book and its two sequels were ...
about aspiring eventer Elaine and the eccentric, aristocratic and impoverished Fane family. More recently the ubiquitous America ...
30 Historical Fiction Janet Fisher Historical fiction, paradoxically, must be based on fact, which makes it different from other ...
Barbara Willard—Ashdown Forest, Sussex, Laura Ingalls Wilder—the Prairies, and Hester Burton—Suffolk. Political views can colour ...
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