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A Harum-scarum Schoolgirl

First published: 1919
Pages: 207

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A PIXIE GIRL
21:32
STARS AND STRIPES
29:45
A PENNILESS PRINCESS
22:05
THE RUSH-BEARING
26:02
DIANA DARES
22:03
FRENCH LEAVE
25:45
LAND GIRLS
31:29
ARMISTICE DAY
37:30
DIANA'S ENGLISH CHRISTMAS
24:57
A FIT OF THE BLUES
22:53
DIANA TO THE RESCUE
25:32
DIANA BREAKS OUT
19:54
CRUSOE ISLAND
31:57
SPOOKS
23:20
JOY-RIDING
24:33
A FAMILY CREST
31:25
THE GREEN-EYED MONSTER
23:26
DIANA'S FOUNDLING
21:05
AMBITIONS
21:41
A TANGLED PLOT
33:31

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About this book

Diana Hewlitt is fourteen, American, and short on self-restraint. Her father's work calls him to Paris in the last year of the war and her mother goes with him, but Diana cannot get a passport, so she is parked at Pendlemere Abbey, a small school in a converted medieval abbey beside a lake in the north of England. She arrives during an upheaval of its own: the principal, Mrs. Gifford, has left suddenly for Burma, and the second mistress, Miss Todd, is now in charge and keen to try the ideas her predecessor blocked. The book runs in episodes rather than one arc, taking in Armistice Day, an English Christmas, a supposed haunting, and Loveday Seton, a senior girl whose grandfather gambled away the Abbey estate. Brazil wrote to entertain her readers, not to improve them.

About the author

Angela Brazil

Angela Brazil was one of the first British writers of "modern schoolgirls' stories", written from the characters' point of view and intended primarily as entertainment rather than moral instruction. In the first half of the 20th century she published nearly 50 books of girls' fiction, the vast majority being boarding school stories.