St Clare's Collection - 9 Books

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a b Youngs, Ian (22 February 2011), " 'Lost' Enid Blyton Book Unearthed", BBC News , retrieved 22 February 2011 In 1950 Blyton established the company Darrell Waters Ltd to manage her affairs. By the early 1950s she had reached the peak of her output, often publishing more than fifty books a year, and she remained extremely prolific throughout much of the decade. [52] By 1955 Blyton had written her fourteenth Famous Five novel, Five Have Plenty of Fun, her fifteenth Mary Mouse book, Mary Mouse in Nursery Rhyme Land, her eighth book in the Adventure series, The River of Adventure, and her seventh Secret Seven novel, Secret Seven Win Through. She completed the sixth and final book of the Malory Towers series, Last Term at Malory Towers, in 1951. [45] Britain's Best Loved Authors", CostaBookAwards.com, archived from the original on 30 September 2011 , 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. I know what you mean, Belly, and it's something that stands out (to me, anyway) in the first book in particular, rather than throughout the series. I consider The Twins at St. Clare's to be "different" from the rest of Blyton's school stories. The tone is more old-fashioned somehow, and the plot episodic and not as well worked out. I don't feel that the threads involving different characters are woven together very skilfully, so there's a disjointed and awkward feel to the narrative. a b Horn, Caroline (25 July 2010), "Enid Blyton Lingo Gets an Update", The Publisher , retrieved 25 April 2014Flood, Alison (22 September 2010). "Rare Enid Blyton manuscripts acquired by Seven Stories museum". The Guardian . Retrieved 11 June 2014. Matthew, Colin (1999), Brief Lives: Twentieth-century Pen Portraits from the Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-280089-3 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] Thompson, Mary Shine; Keenan, Celia (2006), Treasure Islands: Studies in Children's Literature, Four Courts Press, ISBN 978-1-85182-941-5

a b "Seven Go on a 21st-Century Adventure: Enid Blyton Classics to Be Rewritten". The Independent. 28 March 2012. In fact, I think I would rank Angela and Gwedoline as perhaps the two Blyton characters I would see the least hope for in terms of improvement - although Gwen does at the very end show a possibility of improvement.

St. Clare's Sequels

Seven Stories: Enid Blyton Catalogue", Seven Stories Collections Department, archived from the original on 4 July 2014 , retrieved 22 June 2014

Bluemel, Kristin (2009), Intermodernism: Literary Culture in Mid-twentieth-century Britain, Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 978-0-7486-3509-2 Fuenf Freunde", Festival Focus, archived from the original on 12 March 2014 , retrieved 11 March 2014

Dean School Omnibus Editions

In book six, Pat breaks her arm and misses the first weeks of term. Will Pat be upset when new girl Amanda becomes Isabel's new best friend? Enid Blyton (1897-1968) was a prolific and beloved British author of children's books. She is best known for her series, including The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, and The Magic Faraway Tree, which have sold millions of copies worldwide and have become timeless classics of children's literature.

Adams, Stephen (15 November 2009), "BBC Banned Enid Blyton For 30 Years", The Telegraph , retrieved 20 January 2014 John-Henri Holmberg, "The Man Who Inhaled Crime Fiction," in Dan Burstein, Arne de Keijzer, and John Henri Holmberg (2011), The Tattooed Girl: The Enigma of Stieg Larsson and the Secrets behind the Most Compelling Thrillers of Our Time, New York: St. Martin's Griffin, pp. 99–100.

St Clare's

In 1960 alone, eleven Noddy books were published, including the strip books Noddy and the Runaway Wheel, Noddy's Bag of Money, and Noddy's Car Gets into Trouble. [1] The Second Form at St. Clares is the fourth novel in the St. Clare's series of children's school stories by Enid Blyton. The series is about the boarding school adventures of twin girls Patricia and Isabel O'Sullivan. Their form mistress is now Miss Jenks and they no longer have to bear the severeness of the first form mistress, Miss Roberts – who is extremely sarcastic and firm but can be kind when she feels like to, a bit like Mam'zelle, the French teacher that used to teach and is still teaching the girls.