Two copies of Shocks for the Chalet School by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer (one hardback and one paperback).
Good morning! Due to some collection upgrading, I've got two spare copies of Shocks for sale - do send me a private message if you're interested. Open to offers and I'll provide more pics as well. Do note the HB has a photocopied dustwrapper. Thank youuu. #chaletschool #booksky
Partway through christmas #callthemidwife and can’t help but think that if EBD had written this series (which is totally her vibe), Phylis would have kung-fu-ed that gun out of the ganster’s hand. #chaletschool #ebd
Stuff the seasonal sale! Blaydon Grange is FREE (or pay what you want) all year round!
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Lovely day for a walk in the snow #Bärenbadalm #ChaletSchool
On a bright sunny Swiss morning, white water tumbles over rocky falls.
Timeline cleanser. The Falls of the Rhine at Schaffhausen. As Grizel did not see. #ChaletSchool.
Mountains surrounding a Swiss lake. In the foreground is a road and a small grassy shore with a few small trees. The photo was taken from a moving train.
The Thunersee yesterday, for all the #ChaletSchool fans. Did not get to Lauterbrunnen or Wengen (for complicated Deutsch Bahn reasons) but this just means I will have to come back another time .
There are staff members in the German Department here at Bristol that were, like @corinnepainter.bsky.social, equally inspired by the #ChaletSchool series! A small research project in the offing, perhaps?! #ShoutOutForGerman
Book - Peggy of the Chalet School
First page of the book - my name is scored out and replaced with my sister’s name!
Christmas present from my sister - regifting me my own book 📚 in the lead up to the #ChaletSchool centenary
Anyone got access to the #ChaletSchool transcripts? I want them on my e-reader and didn’t download them all many moons ago when regularly on the CBB. I have a fair number but I’d really like them all.
On my way to a book club meeting. #chaletschool
I am enjoying this thread of travel delight hugely, but, inevitably, the Bernese Oberland, Interlaken, and views of the Jungfrau will always bring an entirely different primary canon to mind for me. #ChaletSchool
And also I guess that I love the #ChaletSchool, extremely problematic worts and all for the nuance they have (which far outstrips Blyton), sense of place, and an interesting insight in to attitudes of a woman and her readership between 1923 and 1970.
TB (often shown in books due to a symbiotic relationship between the #ChaletSchool and a tb sanitarium - some children even lost parents to it in the series) & polio (not shown “on screen” but recovering people were)
Again, these were written contemporaneously with the war, sometimes to the clear detriment of the story. Want to know how unforeseen the invasion of the Channel Islands was? Exile (1940) had the #ChaletSchool relocate from Austria to Guernsey bc of Anschluss.
It’s also enormously interesting from a social attitudes perspective in some cases, especially in the books between and including The Chalet School in Exile (published 1940) and Jo to the Rescue (1945). In some ways the #ChaletSchool series is one of the best placed for this.
There are a lot of things that are interesting about reading unabridged #ChaletSchool books, the first of which is 98 years old this year. The last is 53 years old.
Some are High Critical Yikes: huge amounts of smoking, racist language of the period casually tossed around.
Reading "Joey goes to the Oberland". Wonder if ebd's portrayal of medicine/doctors ever grates with real life doctors/fans #chaletschool #cs
