Angela Brazil

The Princess of the School (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

On a certain morning, just a week before Christmas, the little world of school at Chilcombe Hall was awake and stirring at an unusually early hour. Long before the slightest hint of dawn showed in the sky the lamps were lighted in the corridors, maids were scuttling about, bringing in breakfast, and Jones, the gardener, assisted by his eldest boy, a sturdy grinning urchin of twelve, was beginning the process of carrying down piles of hand-bags and hold-alls, and stacking them on a cart which was waiting in the drive outside.

Miss Walters, dreading the Christmas rush on the railway, had determined to take time by the forelock, and meant to pack off her pupils by the first available trains, trusting they would most of them reach their destinations before the overcrowding became a serious problem in the traffic. The pupils themselves offered no objections to this early start. The sooner they reached home and began the holidays, ...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: eBookIt.com
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781456615611
• Artikelnr.: 54519373

Autorenporträt

British author Angela Brazil was well recognized for her large body of work featuring school stories for girls. Brazil, who was raised in a middle-class family and went to the esteemed Headington School in Oxford, was born in Preston, Lancashire, England. Her boarding school experiences are thought to have influenced her later works. Brazil's writing career commenced in the early 1900s when she began to publish her works, which were mostly aimed at teenage females. Her school stories, which usually portrayed the experiences, friendships, and difficulties faced by young ladies attending boarding schools, brought her great fame. Her books frequently had strong female protagonists who overcome adversity to create enduring friendships and gain insightful life lessons. In the early 20th century, Brazil rose to prominence as one of the most prolific writers of girls' fiction thanks to the widespread popularity of her books among young readers during her lifetime. Though her writings are no longer as well-known as they once were, admirers of classic children's literature still like them, and they offer insightful perspectives into the expectations and cultural conventions that surrounded gender roles and education in Brazil at the time.