St Clare's Collection - 9 Books

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Noddy to be launched in China", M2 Best Books, 15 March 2004, archived from the original on 11 June 2014 , retrieved 28 March 2014

a b c d e Alderson, Andrew; Trump, Simon (20 October 2002). "Adulteress Enid Blyton 'ruined her ex-husband' ". The Telegraph . Retrieved 23 January 2014. Maybe Enid Blyton was drawing on memories of school stories she'd read as a girl when she started the St. Clare's series, which would explain why they (or the early titles, at least) seem a little old-fashioned even for the era in which they were written? Also, it seems that she hadn't yet got into her stride when it came to handling a number of sub-plots revolving around different girls. Funnily enough, the first Naughtiest Girl book was written earlier and is more skilfully plotted and pacier, but that's set at an out-of-the-ordinary school, progressive and co-educational, and I think that caught Enid's imagination. And Elizabeth Allen is the main character, with most plot threads centring around her, making it easier to bring everything together.And ignore her they did, though poor Gwen was doing her best to be sensible and likeable now. She had left it a bit too late! Sunny Stories was renamed Enid Blyton's Sunny Stories in January 1937, and served as a vehicle for the serialisation of Blyton's books. Her first Naughty Amelia Jane story, about an anti-heroine based on a doll owned by her daughter Gillian, [61] was published in the magazine. [1] Blyton stopped contributing in 1952, and it closed down the following year, shortly before the appearance of the new fortnightly Enid Blyton Magazine written entirely by Blyton. [62] The first edition appeared on 18 March 1953, [63] and the magazine ran until September 1959. [7] A.H. Thompson, who compiled an extensive overview of censorship efforts in the United Kingdom's public libraries, dedicated an entire chapter to "The Enid Blyton Affair", and wrote of her in 1975: In 1920, Blyton moved to Chessington and began writing in her spare time. The following year, she won the Saturday Westminster Review writing competition with her essay "On the Popular Fallacy that to the Pure All Things are Pure". [13] Publications such as The Londoner, Home Weekly and The Bystander began to show an interest in her short stories and poems. [1] Child Whispers (1922) Interesting - thanks, Tony! I find it a slow process reading Enid's handwriting, so I've written a transcript - hope I've read the handwriting correctly! I've put a few dashes in red where I couldn't decipher one of the words.

Index Translationem", United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization , retrieved 1 February 2014 Di asrama tersebut ada guru Bahasa Prancis, siswa angkuh, kaya atau sok kaya, pencuri, anak berlidah tajam dan kocak. Tapi memang yg karakternya menonjol dan tajam adalah seri MT. Tiap anak karakternya jelas dan digambarkan dgn baik, misal Darrell yg pemarah, Alice yg usil sekaligus rada keji, Sally yg baik dan tegas, Gwendoline si kaya yg cengeng dan sukanya mengidolakan seseorang, Mary Lou yg penakut dan Daphne yg ternyata menyimpan rahasia kelam sebelum datang ke MT. Accusations of xenophobia were also made. As George Greenfield observed, "Enid was very much part of that between the wars middle class which believed that foreigners were untrustworthy or funny or sometimes both". [149] The publisher Macmillan conducted an internal assessment of Blyton's The Mystery That Never Was, submitted to them at the height of her fame in 1960. The review was carried out by the author and books editor Phyllis Hartnoll, in whose view "There is a faint but unattractive touch of old-fashioned xenophobia in the author's attitude to the thieves; they are 'foreign'... and this seems to be regarded as sufficient to explain their criminality." Macmillan rejected the manuscript, [150] but it was published by William Collins in 1961, [151] and then again in 1965 and 1983. [150] One of the most appealing aspects of the St Clare's Collection is its charming and relatable characters. Pat and Isabel are both strong-willed and independent, but they also have their faults and weaknesses. They are realistic and well-rounded, and readers can't help but root for them as they face various challenges throughout the series.

St. Clare's Sequels

I don't personaly think either the third form or sixth form books are very good they are certainly no where near as good as Enid Blyton's original 6 books!!!!!!

The plot of the St. Clare's (and also Malory Towers) books depend a lot on a few girls having their own problems or character flaws, and how that causes trouble but eventually they learn some kind of lesson and grow. This makes for satisfactory character arcs within each book, but the problem is that next year you have another book, and if all the characters have already learned and grown, what's the new book about? Books: Hurrah! the Sun Never Sets on Enid Blyton". The Independent on Sunday. 18 July 2004. Archived from the original on 28 March 2014 . Retrieved 28 March 2014.

St Clare's

There is one quite distasteful piece towards the end of the book though, which even as a kid had me quite indignant. One girl, Sheila, is disliked by the rest of the first form for putting on 'airs and graces'—fair enough. But one day she commits the cardinal sin of saying 'You didn't ought to...' and Janet explodes. 'Haven't you learnt by now that decent people don't say "Didn't ought to"!...you talk like the daughter of the dustman!'