Ethel Talbot (1880–1944)
Auteur de The Natural History Story Book
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Séries
Œuvres de Ethel Talbot
Sea Rangers All 4 exemplaires
Carol's Second Term 4 exemplaires
Nancy, New Girl; and, The Girl Who was Different 3 exemplaires
Surprise Island 3 exemplaires
Meta, The New Girl 3 exemplaires
Betty at St. Benedick's 3 exemplaires
The Half and Half Schoolgirl 3 exemplaires
Jean's Two Schools 3 exemplaires
The Smiths of Silver Lane 3 exemplaires
Anne of Queen Anne’s 2 exemplaires
Pioneer Pat 2 exemplaires
Nesta on Her Own 2 exemplaires
The Stranger in the Train and Other School Stories 2 exemplaires
Schoolgirl Rose: A Story for Girls 2 exemplaires
The Mystery of Mingo: A Book for Girls 2 exemplaires
Betty Holds The Reins 2 exemplaires
Bunch At Boarding School 2 exemplaires
Ranger Jo: A Tale for Girls 2 exemplaires
Gerda Gets There 2 exemplaires
The Foolish Phillimores 1 exemplaire
Pluck at St. Cyprian’s 1 exemplaire
The Middletons Make Good 1 exemplaire
Schoolgirl by Chance 1 exemplaire
Guide’s Luck 1 exemplaire
The Mascot of the School 1 exemplaire
Sadie Sees It Through 1 exemplaire
Red Caps at School 1 exemplaire
Brownies at St. Bride’s 1 exemplaire
Rhona Runs Away 1 exemplaire
The Peppercorn Patrol 1 exemplaire
Meta's Last Term 1 exemplaire
Listening-In and Other Stories for Girls 1 exemplaire
The Luck of the School 1 exemplaire
The Sport of the School 1 exemplaire
Meggy at St. Monica's 1 exemplaire
Brownie Island 1 exemplaire
My Picture Book Of The Circus 1 exemplaire
The Warringtons In War-Time 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Blackie's Girls' Annual (1929) — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
The Giant Book for Girls (1937) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Blackie's Girls' Annual (1927) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Tales of Adventure — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1880-05-26
- Date de décès
- 1944-05-26
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, UK
Brighton, Sussex, England, UK
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
London, England, UK - Professions
- girls' school story author
children's book author - Relations
- Foubert, E.M. de (friend)
- Organisations
- Plymouth Brethren
- Courte biographie
- Ethel Talbot was born in Sutton Coldfield, England, and had at least nine siblings. Her parents Hugh Talbot and his wife Margaret Ellen Turrell, were members of the evangelical Plymouth Brethren, and the family moved frequently. Little is known of her early years or her education. As an adult, she settled in Edinburgh, Scotland, where she shared a house for a few years with her friend and fellow writer E.M. (Ethel Mary) de Foubert. She was a prolific author of girls' school stories from 1919 to her death in 1944, with books that included The School on the Moor (1919), Betty at St. Benedick's (1924), The School at None-Go-By (1926), Schoolgirl Rose (1928), The Mascot of the School (1934), and The Warringtons in War-Time (1940).
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Critiques
Another of Talbot's books where girls have to survive with very little money. This one gives them a couple of relatives but one is conveniently distant and the other is a pathetically helpless artistic sort. With a crumbling old house and twin boys for them to cope with on top of their own work! Very readable, definitely focused around the home and family rather than school.
Definitely one of Talbot's books for younger girls with a very predictable re-used storyline and younger heroines.
Very similar to Gerda Gets There and Diana the Daring! Still enjoyable though.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 73
- Aussi par
- 4
- Membres
- 264
- Popularité
- #87,286
- Évaluation
- 3.2
- Critiques
- 6
- ISBN
- 4
There is lots of talk about modern vs old fashioned, so I assume that was a big issue in the 1930s. Also standing out vs ‘following on’.
The conversations are oddly stilted, with a million ellipses: “It meant...all the girls who had gone before, and...all the ones who were coming on, and...us, in between, and...the Manor, always there.” (p168)
Overall, far too much repetitive introspection and too little action/conversation/relationships.… (plus d'informations)