Please help me!
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Re: Please help me!
Thank you Kitty. I don't know about the book you people are talking about, but I have been trying to find a book that I read forty years ago for at least ten years now. Based on your description I am 99% sure that it is: 'The School in the Dell', by Marjorie Cleves. Other scenes from this book that I remember include: an opening scene where the main character is arriving by train and sees the school in the distance. Shortly thereafter she arrives at the school in the midst of a birthday party; she eats a bit of B'day cake and promptly faints because it is too 'rich' for her. The room that she is assigned to is called; 'the primrose room' and is painted in yellow and green colors. One of the adjacent rooms is 'the lavender room'. There is a scene where the ghost walks from one end of the library to the other. As a result of this scene, when I went to boarding school two years later, I was never able to walk through the library after lights out. This was a bit of a problem as the bathrooms were on the other side! I don't/didn't usually read British schoolgirl books either now or when I was six years old. The only reason that I read this one was that my Grandfather found it discarded on the street in Southeast London in 1966 and he gave it to me. For some reason it got stuck in my head and I have been trying to find it. As a result I have read most of the 'Mallory Towers' series to see if I could identify it. Thanks for your help; now I can go back to being a guy.
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Re: Please help me!
Oh, I do hope it's the one you remember - if it isn't it still could be a different Marjorie - would it be cruel to say she seemed to rewrite the same story over and over again!
There's a small but distinguished band of boy girl's-school-story fans and collectors - most of them start off on the manly stuff, but migrate. If I remember correctly, Terence Stamp is a great fan of Dorita Fairlie Bruce's Dimsie stories for girls!!
There's a small but distinguished band of boy girl's-school-story fans and collectors - most of them start off on the manly stuff, but migrate. If I remember correctly, Terence Stamp is a great fan of Dorita Fairlie Bruce's Dimsie stories for girls!!
Gwendoline lay down, angry. She determined to make herself miserable and cry.