Not politically correct descriptions but who cares this is Blyton at her best. Mam’zelle Dupont “fat and jolly” and Mam’zelle Rougier “thin and sour” both with awful tempers.
The two French Mistress’, of stereotypical quality found in such book and other ‘scholastic’ ones ever since no doubt. Then there are the teachers, we are introduced to Miss Potts the form mistress, fair but firm, encouraging but not over zealous in her praise. Irene who is of genius quality with her music and her maths is oblivious to the world around her.
We meet more characters, Mary-Lou who will not say boo to a goose and is continually picked on and needs some courage. Gwendoline is spoilt and cannot bear to let go of her mother and her governess, Miss Winter who thinks Gwendoline is too good for everything and too good at everything.Īnd so the first term begins for Darrell and the other girls. And all my memories come flooding back to me and to my mum when I mentioned her name it all came back to her as well. (Do you think this is where J.K.Rowling got her idea?) Here we meet Darrell’s contemporaries Alicia Johns, a fun girl but rather hard-nosed in her actions against others, Sally Hope a rather quiet girl who arrives at the station with no one to support her or say goodbye and then there is Gwendoline Mary Lacey. But not in the world of Blyton, where it is a given and it levels all the girls the same as they meet at a London station for the special train to Malory Towers. Not the type of uniform that a girl of today would probably like and certainly one that would be worn with some reluctance. Darrell is excited even by her uniformīrown coat, brown hat, orange ribbon, and a brown tunic underneath with an orange belt. We are straight into the book with the departure of Darrell Rivers to Malory Towers, the boarding school for girls located in Cornwall. Here I am again with another one First Term at Malory Towers. I am on a revisit to my childhood reads and at the moment they involve Enid Blyton.
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