St Clare's Collection - 9 Books

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Si kembar Pat dan Isabel wataknya tak jauh berbeda, hanya Pat kadang lebih berani dan pemberontak. Teman-teman mereka di St Clare karakterisasinya lebih smooth, dalam artian tidak ada yg menonjol sekali dan nyaris membaur antara si ini dan si anu. Tapi ini msh buku pertama, barangkali setelah baca ulang seluruh serinya, pendapat saya bisa berubah. Thompson, A. H. (1975), Censorship in Public Libraries in the United Kingdom during the Twentieth Century (Firsted.), Bowker (R.R.) (UK) Ltd, pp.137–157, ISBN 978-0-8593-5019-8 From the mid-1950s rumours began to circulate that Blyton had not written all the books attributed to her, a charge she found particularly distressing. She published an appeal in her magazine asking children to let her know if they heard such stories and, after one mother informed her that she had attended a parents' meeting at her daughter's school during which a young librarian had repeated the allegation, [80] Blyton decided in 1955 to begin legal proceedings. [1] The librarian was eventually forced to make a public apology in open court early the following year, but the rumours that Blyton operated "a 'company' of ghost writers" persisted, as some found it difficult to believe that one woman working alone could produce such a volume of work. [81] Charitable work [ edit ] After this sobriety, Enid went on to begin a "proper" school series (unlike St Clare's, it's one beginning (Book 1), 2 sequels, a change in direction (Book 4), then a new theme (5) plus a finale (6)). By then the publisher must have said, be more disciplined, you've had 6 books to experiment with that formula! Learning from this experience, Malory Towers was a more pre-planned, sequential affair. They're more complex, darker, has real tragedy in it, and the "villians" are more disturbing. The characters are more complex--shades of good and bad.

Rewrites a blight on Blyton's legacy... by golly". The Sydney Morning Herald. 1 July 2012 . Retrieved 22 January 2014. Miss Kennedy becomes briefly more popular when she finds out about the girls' midnight feast after a bit of horseplay sends furniture flying and makes an almighty crash. Miss Kennedy comes to the dorm, switches on the light and sees a ginger beer bottle on the floor. However, she agrees with Hilary that perhaps the noise was mice. The girls think she is a jolly good sport and are a little better in her class from then on. Sorted and the City: China gets the Noddy". The Mirror. 16 March 2004. Archived from the original on 11 June 2014 . Retrieved 28 March 2014. She felt she had a responsibility to provide her readers with a strong moral framework, so she encouraged them to support worthy causes. In particular, through the clubs she set up or supported, she encouraged and organised them to raise funds for animal and paediatric charities.

St. Clare's Sequels

I cannot add anything more of any depth to the various posts already made - but a couple of simple answers to your question occur to me. a b "When Blyton fell out of the good books". The Sydney Morning Herald. 21 November 2005 . Retrieved 22 January 2014. In book one, the twins are simply not having it. St Clare's is beneath them and they're determined to cause a stir. But life at St Clare's is not as easy as they thought. Inglis, Fred (1982), The Promise of Happiness: Value and Meaning in Children's Fiction, CUP Archive, ISBN 978-0-521-27070-0 Blyton had an interest in biblical narratives, and retold Old and New Testament stories. The Land of Far-Beyond (1942) is a Christian parable along the lines of John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress (1698), with contemporary children as the main characters. [34] In 1943 she published The Children's Life of Christ, a collection of fifty-nine short stories related to the life of Jesus, with her own slant on popular biblical stories, from the Nativity and the Three Wise Men through to the trial, the crucifixion and the resurrection. [35] Tales from the Bible was published the following year, [36] followed by The Boy with the Loaves and Fishes in 1948. [37]

From a bad beginning which includes a fight with one of the teachers, the twins' better sides become apparent and they begin blending a little and enjoying the reactions of their educators to the japes of one irrepressible girl in their class. As in our own schools there are some extremely talented students at St Clare's and you will be amazed by their prowess. There is a class-clown and a brilliant one at that. You'll meet her. Pat and Isabel even attend an enormous birthday supper which includes such delicacies as sardines, a pork pie, a cake with almond icing surrounded with sugar-roses, peppermint creams, and to make it more exciting it takes place at 12a.m — (yes a.m) and it's all strictly against the rules but who cares? 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. I agree that occasionally having a character regress and forget the growth she had had in a previous book can be unsatisfactory, but it's the nature of the series. You notice it more if you are reading all the books one after the other. I think, but I may be misremembering, than in Malory Towers Enid Blyton handles it slightly better, for example not giving Gwendoline her big character growth until the end. Enid Blyton's unseen novel 'Mr Tumpy's Caravan' discovered", Hindustan Times, 23 February 2011, archived from the original on 11 June 2014 , retrieved 28 March 2014Blyton and Darrell Waters married at the City of Westminster Register Office on 20 October 1943. She changed the surname of her daughters to Darrell Waters [102] and publicly embraced her new role as a happily married and devoted doctor's wife. [7] After discovering she was pregnant in the spring of 1945, Blyton miscarried five months later, following a fall from a ladder. The baby would have been Darrell Waters's first child and the son for which they both longed. [4]