Gillian Freeman
, AB
's biographer, sees her rejection, when she was not much more than seven, from her beloved friend Effie (who bestowed her friendship on another child instead) as having had a lifelong...
Family and Intimate relationships
Angela Brazil
Biographer Gillian Freeman
believes that a baby girl born in November 1918 to a maid working for AB
's family was fathered by one or the other of her brothers. Angela applied for and was...
Literary responses
Angela Brazil
Freeman
believes the increased pressure to publish lucrative works ended AB
's golden term of creativity.
Freeman, Gillian. The Schoolgirl Ethic: The Life and Work of Angela Brazil. Allen Lane, 1976.
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Publishing
Angela Brazil
AB
published The School at The Turrets; her biographer Gillian Freeman
dates from this year an increased pressure from publisher Blackie
for an annual high earner (though this did not require any increase in...
Textual Features
Angela Brazil
AB
's famous school stories reflect both her own educational experiences and the rich fantasy life she had lived in adolescence. They mix every-day school life with improbable adventures, running the gamut from hockey games...
Textual Features
Angela Brazil
AB
based this story on her mother's account of her experiences when, fresh from the free and easy atmostphere of Rio, she found herself immured in a strict and harsh English boarding school. The ninth...
Textual Features
Angela Brazil
In the final pages of this work (quoted at length by Gillian Freeman
) a fire at the boarding-school Chetwood offers an opportunity for the heroine, Aldred, to risk her own life in a prolonged...
Textual Features
Angela Brazil
Girls in these books sew, roll bandages, dig for victory, arrange care for the children of munitions workers, and raise money in support of the war effort. For the School Colours is also notable for...
Textual Production
Angela Brazil
Twenty years' worth of AB
's personal letters (together with her final, unfinished book manuscript) were destroyed only a few months before biographer Gillian Freeman
arrived on the scene enquiring for material on her.
Freeman, Gillian. The Schoolgirl Ethic: The Life and Work of Angela Brazil. Allen Lane, 1976.
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Texts
Freeman, Gillian. The Schoolgirl Ethic: The Life and Work of Angela Brazil. Allen Lane, 1976.