a woman in a bathrobe is smiling and says " tonight maybe " ALT: a woman in a bathrobe is smiling and says " tonight maybe "

Today I may have typed:
...You will remember, no doubt, how swiftly order follows a visible correction; its seldom needs repeating. One girl slippered for whispers and giggles after lights-out will often quiet an entire dormitory for a fortnight.
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Posting tonight!

The Seduction of Anne Kelley: Part 0, An Introduction Introduction This sequence draws from the Kelley–de Vries correspondence and the less officious corners of Saint Clare’s, chiefly the Blue Prefect Study papers, where respectable documents go to be…

New Story: If you thought the Charrington visit was the end of it, I regret to inform you it was merely the filing system warming up. The Seduction of Anne Kelley, Part 0.

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No allowance. No visits. No house to myself. And cabbage-boiling lessons at St Albans.
ME, Gladys Williams, marched off to cooking class at five-and-twenty.
It is *intolerable.*
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A drawing of a pink open train case with make-up, a telegram, a scarf, and a jaunty hat.

At King’s Cross she laughed it off.
On the road to Birchwood Grange she fell silent.
And behind the study door, the servants heard the rest.
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Drawing of envelopes with "Telegram" and "Melodrama by Post" written on them.

Six slipper whacks for a midnight chat seemed silly enough — until Lady de Vries lets "slip" the Secret Letters scheme & Aunt Gladys is dragged into the fray.
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The Secret Letters – Part 1 The story of Inez de Vries unfolds through a series of documents—some official, pulled from the prim and unforgiving files of Saint Clare’s School for Girls; others are more intimate, drawn from th…

ARCHIVE // June 1955
Subject: “Secret Letters”
Method: Letter concealed within a letter.
Result: Information escaped Saint Clare’s scrutiny.
Note: Lady de Vries learned of events with suspicious speed.

Secret Letters pt. 1 #inezoftheupper4th
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Saint Clare Prehistory, Part One – In which The Luggage steals my sources This post will (hopefully) evolve. It’s intended to be a living bibliography of boarding school books, stitched together while my brick-red school trunk goes off into an alternative universe …

A blog post listing some sources on girls boarding schools I've used in writing the #saintclareschool & #Inezoftheupper4th stories:
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A cursed diary. A leaky pen. A girl with too much cleverness and just enough conscience.

Saint Clare’s, 1955: Inez writes after the caning and her visit to Matron.

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“She said her backside was throbbing with moral significance.”

Oh, did she now.

The staff of Saint Clare’s have a great deal to say about Miss Inez de Vries—and each other.

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