AIBU To Think Joey Maynard (Of Chalet School Fame) Was Insufferable

[TheShellBeach]

.............with her eleven children, infuriating husband and bizarre tendency to move house (and country) to live next door to the school her sister inexplicably started when Joey was a child.

She also managed to write (at least) two books a year, have a series of multiple pregnancies and poke her nose into the Chalet School's business on a daily basis.

I don't think that article is very well informed. EBD wasn't a pacifist as far as I'm aware, she just believed that ordinary Germans should be distinguished from Nazis.

Were Chambers reluctant to publish non school based titles? What about Jo Returns and all the other holiday books? It took a long time for Armada to publish them but they were published in hard back, were Armada part of Chambers, I can't remember.

I don't think we know for sure that Joey's conversion happened in India, it's just guesswork because we don't see it elsewhere.

I also remember when the split took place between FOCS and the New Chalet Club #scenes

The first holiday book wasn't published until 1945, twenty years after school was published. The conversion had happened by (or during and not mentioned) in Exile but the article I was reading that mentioned it was in India hinted that it was mentioned in one of the early newsletters (number 9) published by EBD, I don't have a copy so can't verify.

Meaning Jo to the rescue as the first holiday book not Jo returns.

Sorry yes I meant Jo to The Rescue. I'd forgotten some were published out of order.

I’ve found it.

Sorry I don't know why the picture posted twice.

Oh gosh yes! Someone who was close to it explained the whole thing to me... IIRC it was all a bit mad and I came to the view that there was some lesbophobia involved.

Oh gosh yes! Someone who was close to it explained the whole thing to me... IIRC it was all a bit mad and I came to the view that there was some lesbophobia involved.

Thanks - so it was in India, the book that never saw the light of day. Such a shame, did the publishers just hang onto it then? I assume if it was with her own papers / book collection GGB would have the publishing rights.

There's a fascinating book about life in girls' boarding schools in the 40s, 50s & 60s. I loved the fact that the author is called Ysenda as that is an EBD worthy name.

Yes! I read that ('Terms and Conditions') following a recommendation on here, and as someone who attended a state comprehensive I found it fascinating (and it made me feel a bit better about how crap comprehensive schools were in the 80s). I highly recommend it.

Oh gosh yes! Someone who was close to it explained the whole thing to me... IIRC it was all a bit mad and I came to the view that there was some lesbophobia involved.
Really?! I didn't know that! On the surface it was just about whether the group was democratically run or not!

Thanks - so it was in India, the book that never saw the light of day. Such a shame, did the publishers just hang onto it then? I assume if it was with her own papers / book collection GGB would have the publishing rights.
I recall there's been in depth articles written about it. I'll see if it was in one of the fill ins.

It's available on Kindle and in paperback from Amazon. Very good book.www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi9pO_b7aH8AhUxTEEAHaXyBXwQFnoECCMQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.goodreads.com%2Fen%2Fbook%2Fshow%2F11817317&usg=AOvVaw09U5t1yyPkIHSwImQYdbrm

I think he was going to Russia, not that he had been there.

poland and Russia were at war from 1918 to 1921.

and there was a centuries old enmity between the countries.

no way would a Pole in the 1920s have had her child singing a Russian song.

@TinselAngel I haven't read it myself as I don't think its easy to find a copy but it might be mentioned in Helen McClelland's 'Joey & Patricia' a reunion in Guernsey?

When Robin becomes a prefect at the Annexe, I wonder if that’s the point when they decide she’s capable of dressing, undressing and bathing herself?

I've found it in the foreword to the Two Chalet Girls in India fill in by Priyadarshini Narendra, by Helen McClelland

It happened during or after exile so not during 2 chalet girls in India which would have been an earlier book. Jack states that they have to get married in England as it will be easier as they are of different religions.

The FB group does allow mention of CGGU from what I can tell. There’s just an agreement that members agree to disagree on its merits!

Can I recommend this excellent YouTube video? It’s a film of a group of fab club members making a trip to Pertisau a good few years ago. Some of them are no longer with us. But very interesting for all sorts of reasons. m.youtube.com/watch?v=ogGemZIiwPA

Fan club that should say.

Slightly beside the point, but 'my child' is very over-used as an endearment by EBD!

Oh of course - Jack did mention the difference of religion in Exile, odd that EBD mentioned it in the newsletter as being in the other book. I've just read that foreword in the free sample you can get on Amazon @TinselAngel thanks for finding it, it does shed a little light where Helen McC suggests that India was likely written prior to Exile and went missing in a printers office in Cambridge.

I suppose there could be another book that didn't see the light of day.

What???? no more missing CS books😂