Collected Works of Angela Brazil
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Angela Brazil (author)
“Collected Works of Angela Brazil” contains: • An aesthetic cover page • A beginning click-able Table of Contents for all titles • Inner click-able Tables of Contents for all individual books with multiple chapters • Nicely organized chapters and text Author’s works in this collection...
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“Collected Works of Angela Brazil” contains:
• An aesthetic cover page
• A beginning click-able Table of Contents for all titles
• Inner click-able Tables of Contents for all individual books with multiple chapters
• Nicely organized chapters and text
Author’s works in this collection include:
• FOR THE SAKE OF THE SCHOOL
• THE JOLLIEST SCHOOL OF ALL
• THE LUCKIEST GIRL IN THE SCHOOL
• MONITRESS MERLE
• A POPULAR SCHOOL GIRL
• THE PRINCESS OF THE SCHOOL
• THE YOUNGEST GIRL IN THE FIFTH
Wikipedia.org on Angela Brazil:
Angela Brazil (1868 – 1947) was one of the first British writers of "modern schoolgirls' stories", written from the characters' point of view and intended primarily as entertainment rather than moral instruction. In the first half of the 20th century she published nearly 50 books of girls' fiction, the vast majority being boarding school stories. She also published numerous short stories in magazines.
Her books were commercially successful, widely read by tween girls, and influential upon their readers. While interest in girls' school stories waned after World War II, her books remained popular until the 1960s. They were seen as disruptive and a negative influence on moral standards by some figures in authority during the height of their popularity, and in some cases were banned by headmistresses in British girls' schools.
While her stories have been much imitated in more recent decades, and many of her motifs and plot elements have since become clichés or the subject of parody, they were innovative when they first appeared. Brazil made a major contribution to changing the nature of fiction for girls. She presented a young female point of view which was active, aware of current issues and independently minded; she recognised adolescence as a time of transition, and accepted girls as having common interests and concerns which could be shared and acted upon.
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Format: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B016TO0820
Publish date: 2015-10-17
Publisher: Minerva Classics
Edition language: English