Elsie Jeanette Oxenham (1880–1960)
Autor(a) de The Abbey Girls in Town
About the Author
Séries
Obras de Elsie Jeanette Oxenham
New Girls at Wood End 8 cópias
Deb at School 7 cópias
The Call of the Abbey School 4 cópias
Rosamund's Castle 2 cópias
Adventure in the Abbey 2 cópias
6 Volumes: 1. The Abbey Girls On Trial, 2. Schooldays At The Abbey, 3. The Abbey Girls Play Up, 4.Schoolgirl Jen Of The… (1949) 1 exemplar(es)
Jen of the Abbey School 1 exemplar(es)
The Girls of the Hamlet Club 1 exemplar(es)
The Abbey Girls (Abbey #2) 1 exemplar(es)
The Queen of the Abbey 1 exemplar(es)
Hulton's Girls' Stories, 1923 1 exemplar(es)
Little Folks ,Vol 101 1 exemplar(es)
Little Folks, Nov-Apl, 1920 -1921 1 exemplar(es)
The Abbey Compendium 1 exemplar(es)
Little Folks, Diamond Jubilee Issue 1 exemplar(es)
The Abbey Girls In Town 1 exemplar(es)
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Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- Dunkerley, Elsie Jeanette
- Outros nomes
- Oxenham, E.J.
- Data de nascimento
- 1880-11-25
- Data de falecimento
- 1960-01-09
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- Southport, Lancashire, England, UK
- Local de falecimento
- Worthing, West Sussex, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- Ealing, West London, England, UK
Worthing, West Sussex, England, UK (Farncombe Road)
Southport, Lancashire, England, UK - Ocupação
- writer
author
novelist
girls' school story author
camp fire guardian - Relacionamentos
- Oxenham, John (father)
Oxenham, Erica
Dunkerley, Roderic (brother)
Godfrey, Monica (biographer) - Organizações
- Camp Fire
- Pequena biografia
- Born in Southport, Lancashire, in 1880 her real name was Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley. Elsie's first book was called Goblin Island. She wrote 87 books and a number of short stories for girls. Elsie passed away in a Worthing nursing home, in January 1960.
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The Abbey Girls de Elsie J. Oxenham
Still one of my favourite school series.
Nothing special, but still perfectly readable. Very much about ethics, which is one of the strengths of the Abbey books.
Not one of the best Abbey books, but still perfectly readable. I do find that having Joy, Jen, Joan and Jandy all in one book causes me to mix characters up. Just too many Js.
The outcome of many things in this book is too easy to predict, but then again, perhaps it should be.
The basic philosophy of the book is that one should be kind to people. But it also looks at it from a sensible angle. The Abbey girls help, but they first make sure that the help is welcome.
The outcome of many things in this book is too easy to predict, but then again, perhaps it should be.
The basic philosophy of the book is that one should be kind to people. But it also looks at it from a sensible angle. The Abbey girls help, but they first make sure that the help is welcome.
A book with some interesting approaches to death. How do we handle death, what is an apropriate reaction?
I'm not religious myself, but I found myself relating to one character who had the courage to say to her friend who's mother had died. (I paraphrase) "Why are you crying for her? She is with God. She is with the man she loved. If she had lived until you were able to say goodbye, she would have spent more time in pain. Is that something you would have wanted?"
That's a brave subject to tackle for a school novel.
Like most Abbey school novels, the men remain almost totally invisible. Even when character are married, the author manages to keep them out of the way.
It's a sign of the times when the book was written that pregnancy is pretty much a taboo subject. Babies appear almost by magic. The only hint that a character is pregnant (which I failed to catch) was that she was tired a lot of the time.… (mais)
I'm not religious myself, but I found myself relating to one character who had the courage to say to her friend who's mother had died. (I paraphrase) "Why are you crying for her? She is with God. She is with the man she loved. If she had lived until you were able to say goodbye, she would have spent more time in pain. Is that something you would have wanted?"
That's a brave subject to tackle for a school novel.
Like most Abbey school novels, the men remain almost totally invisible. Even when character are married, the author manages to keep them out of the way.
It's a sign of the times when the book was written that pregnancy is pretty much a taboo subject. Babies appear almost by magic. The only hint that a character is pregnant (which I failed to catch) was that she was tired a lot of the time.… (mais)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 117
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 3,266
- Popularidade
- #7,833
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Resenhas
- 14
- ISBNs
- 49
- Favorito
- 6