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Biography
Angela Brazil was arguably the first author of girls' books to write her stories
from the characters' point of view - and the first to write entertaining rather than
instructional stories. Not for her readers did Angela take the high sermonising ground.
She believed in writing amusing and enjoyable tales in which the characters acted like normal
human beings.
Angela was born on November 30, 1868, in Preston, Lancashire, England. Her parents were
quite well off. The Brazils already had three children - Clarence, 10; Walter, 8; and Amy, 6.
Her father, a rather remote figure like many fathers of the period, was involved in the cotton manufacturing industry.
Angela Brazil (pronounced 'brazzle') wrote nearly fifty schoolgirl novels.
These were considered to deal accurately and sympathetically with the
highs and lows in the lives of middle-class schoolgirls, including the tangle
of emotional friendships. Writing from a girl's viewpoint she said she was
really still a schoolgirl at heart. The realism is particularly shown in her frequent
use of slang expressions, a factor that led some teachers banning her books.
She was quite late in taking up writing and at first wrote a few magazine articles
on mythology and nature. Her first book to be published was A terrible tomboy
(1905) but her long sequence of school stories did not commence until her second
book The fortunes of Phillipa (1906). This was based on the experiences of her
mother, Angelica, who having arrived from Rio de Janeiro as a young girl, was
thrown straight into the unfamiliar world of the the Victorian girls’ boarding school.
Unlike many of her contemporaries writing in this vein she did not write any books
in a series, each stood on its own with different characters every time. In addition
to her books she contributed a large number of school stories to children's annuals.
Bibliography of school stories
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A Fortunate Term 1921.
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A Fourth Form Friendship 1911
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A Harum-Scarum Schoolgirl 1919
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A Pair of Schoolgirls 1912.
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A Patriotic Schoolgirl 1918.
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A Popular Schoolgirl 1920
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A Terrible Tomboy 1904
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An Exciting Term. London 1936.
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At School with Rachel 1928.
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Captain Peggie 1924.
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Five Jolly Schoolgirls 1941
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For the Sake of the School. 1915.
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For the School Colours 1918.
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Jean’s Golden Term. 1934.
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Jill’s Jolliest School 1937.
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Joan’s Best Chum 1926
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The Secret of Border Castle 1943
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The Third Class at Miss Kaye's 1908.
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The Youngest Girl in the Fifth 1913.
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The Girls of St.Cyprians 1914.
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Three Terms at Uplands 1945
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Loyal to the School 1921.
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Manor House School 1910.
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Monitress Merle 1922.
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Nesta's New School. 1932
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The New Girl at St Chad's. 1911.
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Queen of the Dormitory and Other Stories 1926.
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Ruth of St. Ronan's 1927.
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Schoolgirl Kitty 1923
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St. Catherine’s College 1929.
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The Fortunes of Philippa 1906.
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The Head Girl at The Gables 1919
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The Jolliest Term on Record 1915.
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The Leader of the Lower School 1913.
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The Little Green School 1931.
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The Luckiest Girl in the School 1916.
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The Madcap of the School 1917
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The Mystery of the Moated Grange 1942
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The New School at Scawdale 1940.
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The Nicest Girl in the School. 1909;
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The Princess of the School 1920
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The School at the Turrets 1935.
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The School by the Sea. 1914.
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The School in the Forest 1944
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The School in the South. 1922
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The School on the Cliff 1938.
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The School on the Loch 1946
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The School on the Moor 1939.
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