It's Elinor M Brent-Dyer, which is why googling wouldn't help! Hmm, where's my Jo Bettany icon got to?
Her books are stillprettypopular. *g* Obviously the morals have dated, and the books got very repetitive towards the end (there are over 60, spanning two generations), but the early ones especially are very readable, and left me with a lifelong desire to see Austria, Switzerland and Guernsey!
Rosina, did you ever read The Chalet Girls Grow Up? I love it, but the Amazon reviews are a good indication of the way it polarises Chalet fans!
One of the reasons I fell for the HP books so much was the boarding school trope - I couldn't get enough of school stories as a child.
I loved the Trebizon books, too! Agree that they were slightly more adult, if only because set more recently and therefore with less Victorian morals. I was disappointed when she stopped writing them.
(Sorry to be confusing; parts of this comment are directed at both of you, but splitting up the comment would make no sense!)
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Her books are still pretty popular. *g* Obviously the morals have dated, and the books got very repetitive towards the end (there are over 60, spanning two generations), but the early ones especially are very readable, and left me with a lifelong desire to see Austria, Switzerland and Guernsey!
Rosina, did you ever read The Chalet Girls Grow Up? I love it, but the Amazon reviews are a good indication of the way it polarises Chalet fans!
One of the reasons I fell for the HP books so much was the boarding school trope - I couldn't get enough of school stories as a child.
I loved the Trebizon books, too! Agree that they were slightly more adult, if only because set more recently and therefore with less Victorian morals. I was disappointed when she stopped writing them.
(Sorry to be confusing; parts of this comment are directed at both of you, but splitting up the comment would make no sense!)