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Angela Brazil was born on 30 November 1868, at her home, 1 West Cliff, Preston, Lancashire. [3] [8]: 166 [9] She was the youngest child of Clarence Brazil, a mill manager, and Angelica McKinnel, the daughter of the owner of a shipping line in Rio de Janeiro, who had a Spanish mother.
The Online School for Girls (OSG) is a US online learning environment built on the traditions of independent schools and girls' schools. It was founded in 2009 by four such schools forming a non-profit consortium. [1] [2] [3]
The Girls' Eton (1911) A City Schoolgirl and Her Friends (1912) [11] Corah's School Chums (1912) Hilda's Experiences (1913) A Schoolgirl's Diary: The Story of Her Holiday Beyond the Seas (1914) Phyllis McPhilemy: A School Story (1915) Mrs. Manning's Wards (1916) Irene to the Rescue: The Story of an English Girl's Fight for the Right (1917) [12 ...
The Governess, or The Little Female Academy by Sarah Fielding, published in 1749, is generally seen as the first boarding school story. [1] Fielding's novel was a moralistic tale with tangents offering instruction on behavior, and each of the nine girls in the novel relates her story individually.
The Schoolgirl was a British weekly story paper aimed at girls. Published by Amalgamated Press (AP), The Schoolgirl ran in two series, the first from 1922 to 1923, and the second (essentially continuing a sister publication) from 1929 to 1940.
A World of Girls sold 37,000 copies and was highly influential on girls’ school stories of the twentieth century. [3] However, she also wrote "sentimental" and "sensational" stories, religious stories, historical novels, adventure, romances, and mysteries, including several with male co-authors.
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The Twins at St Clare's is a children's novel by Enid Blyton set in an English girls' boarding school. [1] [2] It is the first of the original six novels in the St. Clare's series of school stories. First published in 1941, it tells the story of twin sisters Pat and Isabel O'Sullivan in their first term at a new school. [3] [4] [5] They meet ...