St Clare's Collection - 9 Books

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Patricia O'Sullivan alias Pat dan saudara kembarnya Isabel O'Sullivan dimasukkan ke St. Clare oleh orang tuanya. Awalnya mereka menolak dan bertekad untuk bersikap buruk sehingga mereka bisa pindah ke sekolah yang mereka inginkan. Tapi ternyata St. Clare memberikan mereka "pengalaman" yang tak pernah terlupakan. The Second Form at St. Clares is the fourth novel in the St. Clare's series of children's school stories by Enid Blyton. The series is about the boarding school adventures of twin girls Patricia and Isabel O'Sullivan. Their form mistress is now Miss Jenks and they no longer have to bear the severeness of the first form mistress, Miss Roberts – who is extremely sarcastic and firm but can be kind when she feels like to, a bit like Mam'zelle, the French teacher that used to teach and is still teaching the girls. Wonderful, thanks so much. Perhaps Enid's heart wasn't in it if she'd been 'asked' to write it? Or she did it out of duty more than creative longing/passion/personal inspiration? No single author has caused more controversy among librarians, literary critics, teachers, and other educationalists and parents during the last thirty years, than Enid Blyton. How is it that the books of this tremendously popular writer for children should have given rise to accusations of censorship against librarians in Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom?" [132]

The main bad point is just how slappable the twins are during their rebellious phase—turning up their noses at everything and loftily declaring they wouldn't even know how to clean boots. Why they can't just sneak off with a bottle of cider like I did at fourteen I don't know... The Twins at St Clare's Another one, a little less serious, occurs during the climactic chapters of "Five Have a Mystery to Solve" - which is probably from the period affected by dementia anyway - but this particular plot hole could be fixed by adding one or two paragraphs at a particular point in one chapter. Blyton and Darrell Waters married at the City of Westminster Register Office on 20 October 1943. She changed the surname of her daughters to Darrell Waters [102] and publicly embraced her new role as a happily married and devoted doctor's wife. [7] After discovering she was pregnant in the spring of 1945, Blyton miscarried five months later, following a fall from a ladder. The baby would have been Darrell Waters's first child and the son for which they both longed. [4] Enid Blyton's Jolly Story Book (List of Contents)". The Enid Blyton Society . Retrieved 15 January 2022. Meanwhile the twins get to know the other girls in their form. There is the forthright Janet, the steady Hilary, the shy Kathleen and the snobbish Sheila. The latter of these two provide the main 'lessons' of the book, with Kathleen emerging as a thief who steals to earn friendship and Sheila a girl from a poor family made good who is unsure of how to act in her new social position and consequently over-acts. The term ends with both of these girls settling down as integrated members of the form.

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From the mid-1950s rumours began to circulate that Blyton had not written all the books attributed to her, a charge she found particularly distressing. She published an appeal in her magazine asking children to let her know if they heard such stories and, after one mother informed her that she had attended a parents' meeting at her daughter's school during which a young librarian had repeated the allegation, [80] Blyton decided in 1955 to begin legal proceedings. [1] The librarian was eventually forced to make a public apology in open court early the following year, but the rumours that Blyton operated "a 'company' of ghost writers" persisted, as some found it difficult to believe that one woman working alone could produce such a volume of work. [81] Charitable work [ edit ] Identical twins, Patricia and Isabel O'Sullivan, begin their secondary school education on a sour note. They want to attend Ringmere— a kind of Roedean clone where their good friend Frances has been enrolled but Mr ... Mrs O'Sullivan are under the impression their daughters have acquired a certain amount of snobbishness from the last school they attended ( Redroofs) and have opted for St Clare's which they view as a Sensible establishment. The twins' decision regarding this outrageous deviation in their lives is that they will turn their noses up at anyone and everything and show the other girls that they are Somebodies— And Don't You Forget It!! After all they were head-girls at their old school and the decided opinion (Pat's admittedly) is that she and Isabel are good at nearly everything as well as being pretty and amusing. I find that statement pretty amusing because people who call themselves pretty and amusing are often ugly and boring. Fortunately for the O'Sullivan Twins, they are essentially success-driven which is a quality inherited, no doubt, from their Sensible parents. This isn’t a review - this is a classic Enid Blyton series, and I grew up with it and will always feel nostalgic toward it. But it is a bunch of unrelated thoughts on -

The two girl twins, Patricia and Isabel O'Sullivan, having just finished school at the elite school called Redroofs, are expected to move on to senior school. While most of their friends at their old school, two of them Mary and Frances Waters, are moving to the equally elite Ringmere, the twins' parents are reluctant to send them to an expensive school as they are afraid the twins might become spoilt and snobbish. Furious at their parents' refusal to send them to the school of their choice, the twins are determined to be as difficult as possible at St. Clare's. Sherine, Ariane (24 September 2016). "Stop censoring Enid Blyton". The Spectator. Archived from the original on 29 September 2016. In book six, Pat breaks her arm and misses the first weeks of term. Will Pat be upset when new girl Amanda becomes Isabel's new best friend? Index Translationem", United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization , retrieved 1 February 2014 Seven Stories: Enid Blyton Collection Highlights", Seven Stories Collections Department , retrieved 22 June 2014Greenfield, George (1995), A Smattering of Monsters: A Kind of Memoir, Camden House, ISBN 978-1-57113-071-6 The Comic Strip, a group of British comedians, produced two extreme parodies of the Famous Five for Channel 4 television: Five Go Mad in Dorset, broadcast in 1982, [g] and Five Go Mad on Mescalin, broadcast the following year. [1] A third in the series, Five Go to Rehab, was broadcast on Sky in 2012. [168] In 1954 Blyton adapted Noddy for the stage, producing the Noddy in Toyland pantomime in just two or three weeks. The production was staged at the 2660-seat Stoll Theatre in Kingsway, London at Christmas. [163] Its popularity resulted in the show running during the Christmas season for five or six years. [164] Blyton was delighted with its reception by children in the audience, and attended the theatre three or four times a week. [165] TV adaptations of Noddy since 1954 include one in the 1970s narrated by Richard Briers. [166] In 1955 a stage play based on the Famous Five was produced, and in January 1997 the King's Head Theatre embarked on a six-month tour of the UK with The Famous Five Musical, to commemorate Blyton's centenary. On 21 November 1998 The Secret Seven Save the World was first performed at the Sherman Theatre in Cardiff. [1] Continuing the popular series, St Clare's boarding-school has some interesting newcomers. Claudine, a French girl, causes great excitement by doing and saying exactly what she likes, and Eileen's mother is the new Matron. Hensher, Philip (26 December 2006), "The Fatal Childhood Addiction to Enid Blyton", The Independent, archived from the original on 28 March 2014 , retrieved 28 March 2014