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Complete and unabridged, with 52 full-page plates by William Quiller Orchardson, John William Godward and David Wilkie. Three schoolfellows scheme to find the money that will keep one of them at school, and the scheme ends in a cheque that should never have been written. L. T. Meade wrote more than two hundred books, mostly for girls, and invented the modern school story alongside Angela Brazil. The moral pressure here is applied by the friends rather than the mistresses, which is why it still works. Fifty-two plates by painters including Millais and Wilkie carry the same themes of youth, letters and moral pressure that drive the story.
Complete and unabridged, with 52 full-page plates by William Quiller Orchardson, John William Godward and David Wilkie. Three schoolfellows scheme to find the money that will keep one of them at school, and the scheme ends in a cheque that should never have been written. L. T. Meade wrote more th...
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L. T. Meade (1844–1914) was an Irish clergyman's daughter who wrote some three hundred books, largely for girls, edited a girls' magazine, and belonged to the Pioneer Club of advanced women. The school story as English girls knew it is half hers.
L. T. Meade (1844–1914) was an Irish clergyman's daughter who wrote some three hundred books, largely for girls, edited a girls' magazine, and belonged to the Pioneer Club of advanced women. The school story as English girls knew it is half hers.
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