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posted by [identity profile] desperance.livejournal.com at 05:21pm on 09/02/2008
Fiend. I had to look up 'anisotropic'. You have caused me to improve my word-power, and now I feel all Reader's Digest...

Also, never fear for your own digestion! There is an episode in the Chalet School (I do not at this point remember the exact volume) where the evil Thekla von Stift eats raw bacon (because she's evil, largely). She suffers no more immediate consequences than the appalled disapproval of her peers and a night or two under Matron's eagle eye in the sanatorium (tho' she is, and quite rightly, expelled later on: the first girl to be so disgraced, and only ever one of two...). I am confident that Eleanor M Brent-Dyer is entirely reliable in these matters.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 05:31pm on 09/02/2008
What a relief - all I get is appalled disapproval. Hang on a minute! Do not want! Can't I be violently ill instead?
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 05:32pm on 09/02/2008
I was more into Jill's Gymkhana and the Pullein-Thompson sisters than Chalet School books. I'm not sure whether I've missed out or not.
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posted by [identity profile] desperance.livejournal.com at 06:06pm on 09/02/2008
Thoroughly. Utterly. Trust me on this: ponies have nothing on School Adventures in Foreign Parts.
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posted by [identity profile] desperance.livejournal.com at 06:09pm on 09/02/2008
Did you know Josephine and Diana P-T are still alive? And that Christine's daughter Charlotte Popescu also writes pony stories...?
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posted by [identity profile] anef.livejournal.com at 06:10pm on 09/02/2008
I loved the Chalet School books until I went to real secondary school and discovered it was nothing like them. OK, I wasn't expecting the adventures, but the sort of genial fun was also entirely absent. Can't re-read them now but I did read quite recently "The Chalet Girls Grow Up" which is a blackly comic (though at the same time sympathetic) story of what happened to some of the girls after. The author thoroughly debunks the author's excessive fondness for some of the characters. I got it out of the Rock Road library so it may still be available.

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posted by [identity profile] hilarityallen.livejournal.com at 06:22pm on 09/02/2008
WEll, I have a copy I can lend out. Also most of the Chalet School books, which have survived my contact with real boarding schools.
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posted by [identity profile] desperance.livejournal.com at 10:55pm on 09/02/2008
Tell me more about "The Chalet Girls Grow Up"? I know nothing of this... (But I have absolutely all of the originals, which also survived my contact with the real thing...)
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posted by [identity profile] hilarityallen.livejournal.com at 11:26pm on 09/02/2008
I found it rather depressing. But then, I wasn't particularly happy when I read it.
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posted by (anonymous) at 06:24am on 10/02/2008
It's by Merryn Williams, and if you look it up on Amazon you will see some very polarised reviews. In fact reading the reviews will probably give you quite a good idea of what it's like. I found it very funny, but lots of people didn't.
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posted by [identity profile] anef.livejournal.com at 06:26am on 10/02/2008
Sorry, that was me.
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posted by [identity profile] desperance.livejournal.com at 09:45am on 10/02/2008
Thank you!
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posted by [identity profile] anef.livejournal.com at 06:11pm on 09/02/2008
Re bacon, the author is in no way to be relied on as to physical phenomena, which she just makes up blithely. For instance in one book some of the girls as a jolly jape put snails onto a window pane, and they make an appalling squeaking noise. I haven't deliberately repeated the experiment but have several times observed snails on window panes making no noise whatsoever.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 06:16pm on 09/02/2008
> physical phenomena, which she just makes up blithely

[livejournal.com profile] bugshaw tries to work out what Eleanor M Brent-Dyer would have meant by anisotropic brownies. I know what I mean.

Aw! That's so sweet about the snails, but how could she not know that didn't squeak?
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posted by [identity profile] desperance.livejournal.com at 10:54pm on 09/02/2008
Oh, goshdarn! Do not tell me these things!

Hee...

(S'okay, I have never really viewed her as reliable, except in her own Chalet world. Where I'm sure Tyrolean snails absolutely do make squeaking noises on glass. The truly terrifying thing is that during the war, Elinor M did actually set up a school of her own. With her mother. I have a dreadful feeling that she would've tried to recreate the whole Chalet thing, and truly believed it would work. It, um, didn't...)
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