Housekeeping and Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: The Chalet School and Pre-Industrial Communities
Chapter Two: Runaways of the Chalet School
Chapter Three: Empire of the Chalet School
Chapter Four: The Chalet School Goes To War
Chapter Five: The Chalet Girls Self-Actualise
Coda: Sex and the Single Chaletian
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Miles Booy is an independent scholar who lives in Stafford, UK, with his wife and son. He studied at the College of St. Mark and St. John, Plymouth, and did post-graduate work at the University of East Anglia. His previous books concerned Doctor Who, Marvel Comics, and Star Wars, so perhaps this work sees him exploring his feminine side.
“In this new appraisal of the still immensely popular Chalet School books, Miles Booy locates Elinor Brent-Dyer’s series within the big themes of the twentieth century – internationalism, urban disenchantment, war, religion, consumerism, secularity – and shows how she sustains the underlying ethos of the books while adjusting to the huge historical shifts of the time. Full of perceptive insights, The Chalet School Books and the Twentieth Century is written with the seriousness the books deserve and the affectionate humour of someone who really knows and loves the work.”
-Rosemary Auchmuty, University of Reading, author of A World of Girls and A World of Women.
