Download or read book The Sands of Time written by Jenny Plastow and published by Univ of Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children's Literature Has always been produced by radicals and reformers. Critical analysis of their views and methods is a fascinating and increasingly contested new field. Bringing together a range of perspectives from established academics, well-known children's writers and students of children's literature, this collection provides an unusual and challenging read. Whether you are interested in how writers present the lives of working children in nineteenth-century America, how picture books challenge and subvert the political stance of contemporary Australia, or how issues in Kenya or Palestine can become the material of children's fiction, there are plenty of ideas to explore. --

Download or read book Bride Leads the Chalet School written by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bride Leads the Chalet School follows the adventures of a group of schoolgirls at an English boarding school. When the school gains an influx of new students who are used to more relaxed rules, tensions arise between the prefects trying to maintain order and the rebellious newcomers. Smart and mischievous Mary-Lou finds herself at the center of several antics, while studious Bride struggles to establish her authority as the new Head Girl. After multiple clashes with rude new girl Diana, the prefects turn to a former Head Girl for advice on how to handle Diana's refusal to follow the rules. This classic school story featuring likeable heroines and plenty of misadventures will appeal to readers young and old who enjoy tales of boarding school life.

Download or read book The English Girls School Story written by Judith Humphrey and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The English girls' boarding school novel was staple reading for girls, not just in England, through the first half of the twentieth century. Generally dismissed as sentimental hack writing, these stories were immensely popular. Humphries, who had loved the books as a child, discovered in adulthood that she was still enamored of them. Her search for why the books still hold up turned into a dissertation. She concentrates on the genre as a whole, finding several important similarities. The most important ones involve the independence and strength of young women living in an all female environment. The chapters elucidate the positive messages that the books contain: a respect for intelligence and learning, women as self directed, women active in sports, women in authority and, importantly, the bonds of female friendship. Humphries makes it clear that although some attitudes have changed, too many girls still see themselves as incomplete without a boyfriend and always secondary to him."--GOOGLE BOOKS.

Download or read book A World of Women written by Rosemary Auchmuty and published by Women's Press (UK). This book was released on 1999 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Rosemary Auchmuty looks at school novels with popular female heroines, such as the Abbey Girl books and the Chalet School series. She questions their ability to portray strong, independent women, and asks why the female authors often resort to the conventions of society, marrying the characters off into a life of domesticity.

Download or read book British and American School Stories 1910 1960 written by Nancy G. Rosoff and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-25 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines school and college fiction for girls in Britain and the United States, written in the first half of the twentieth century, to explore the formation and ideologies of feminine identity. Nancy G. Rosoff and Stephanie Spencer develop a transnational framework that recognises how both constructed and essential femininities transcend national boundaries. The book discusses the significance and performance of female friendship across time and place, which is central to the development of the genre, and how it functioned as an important means of informal education. Stories by Jessie Graham Flower, Pauline Lester, Alice Ross Colver, Elinor Brent-Dyer, and Dorita Fairlie Bruce are set within their historical context and then used to explore aspects of sociability, authority, responsibility, domesticity, and possibility. The distinctiveness of this book stems from the historical analysis of these sources, which have so far primarily been treated by literary scholars within their national context. Winner of the History of Education Society Anne Bloomfield Prize for the best book on history of education published in English 2017-19

Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 2142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Wrong Chalet School written by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer and published by Alien Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-12-29 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katharine Gordon joins the Chalet School and becomes involved with the tennis team. But why is she there and not the school she was originally supposed to attend? Meanwhile, one of her new friends, Blossom, disappears on the day of an important tennis match. Who or what is behind the mystery?

Download or read book Hilda Annersley written by Lesley Green and published by Troubador Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elinor Brent-Dyer's Chalet School books have been popular for decades, and the characters and events introduced in the series have continued in present day fiction. At the beginning of Gay from China at the Chalet School, we learn that several of the Chalet School mistresses, including Miss Annersley and Miss Wilson, have been hurt in a road accident. Miss Annersley, the Headmistress of the Chalet School, is the most severely injured, and it is over a year before she returns to the school. What happened in that year? Hilda Annersley: Headmistress answers that question. Starting from the accident itself, Hilda Annersley's background and character, develops in detail, filling in many of the gaps in her history... her childhood and upbringing, the start of her friendship with Miss Wilson, and her experiences as a Headmistress in Austria after the Anschluss.

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Download or read book The Stage Year Book with which is Included the Stage Periodical Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Key of the Unknown written by Rosa Nouchette Carey and published by Macmillan Company of Canada. This book was released on 1909 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Living the Love written by Jennifer Hobhouse Balme and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1918 Emily Hobhouse was 58 and a partial invalid. She could have retired to her beloved Cornwall to write her memoirs but the plight of the children of Europe, half starved by war restrictions, called her to new works. Helped by the Save the Children Fund and people of the South Africa, her main scheme was to provide meals for thousands of children in the city of Leipzig, Germany. Then the South Africans remembering how she had helped and encouraged their own women and children in the Anglo Boer war of 1899-1902 gave her money for a house in Cornwall where she could write. Her ashes were interred in the War Memorial in South Africa dedicated to the women and children whom long ago she had done so much to help. Though often sick hers was a life of Service and shows what determination can achieve.

Download or read book The Stage Year Book written by Lionel Carson and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1908-10 include the section: The Stage provincial guide; 1950-52: The Stage guide. (Other years published separately).

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