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unusual facts about school story



Chalet School

The Chalet School is a series of approximately sixty school story novels by Elinor Brent-Dyer, initially published between 1925 and 1970.

Radclyffe Hall

The British composer and bon-vivant Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners, wrote a roman à clef girls' school story entitled The Girls of Radcliff Hall, in which he depicts himself and his circle of friends, including Cecil Beaton and Oliver Messel, as lesbian schoolgirls at a school named "Radcliff Hall".

Trebizon

Anne Digby wrote fourteen school story novels set in the fictional school Trebizon, published between 1978 and 1994.


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Angela Brazil

The Governess, or The Little Female Academy by Sarah Fielding, published in 1749, is generally seen as the first boarding school story.

Clare Mallory

Clare Mallory dedicated Juliet Overseas to Josephine Elder, author of what she described as 'the best school story I know'.

Josephine Elder

Twenty years later Clare Mallory, another leading exponent of the girls' school story, dedicated one of her own books, Juliet Overseas to Josephine Elder, describing her as "Author of the best girls' school story I know: Evelyn Finds Herself."

Roger Longrigg

He wrote the lightly erotic school story, The Passion Flower Hotel, as Rosalind Erskine; Scottish historical novels as Laura Black; spy thrillers as Ivor Drummond; mystery thrillers as Frank Parrish; and black comedies about dysfunctional families as Domini Taylor.

The School Story

The School Story is a children's novel by Andrew Clements, published in 2001.