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Anyone remember E.B's Chalet School/Mallory Towers names?

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YummyMummybee · 06/01/2012 18:33

Just out of interest does anyone remember any of the Enid Blyton names? Used to love them when I was younger..

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Alouisee · 06/01/2012 18:35

Darrel was head girl at Malory Towers - that's all I can remember.

Alouisee · 06/01/2012 18:35

Ooooh - Alicia was another one.

SauvignonBlanche · 06/01/2012 18:36

Do you mean the characters or the books?

TheDetective · 06/01/2012 18:37

Felicity - think that was MT.

KenDoddsDadsDog · 06/01/2012 18:37

Gwendoline Mary Lacey
The hon Clarissa
Wilhelmina (Bill)
Sally
Felicity
June

EdithWeston · 06/01/2012 18:37

Chalet School wasn't Enid Blyton, it was Elinor M Brent Dyer.

Do you want Chalet School names? (I can come back with lots!)

From Enid Blyton (Mallory Towers and St Clares): I can remember only Darrell, Sally, Gwendoline, Lou (? - the one who pretended to be richer than she was).

SauvignonBlanche · 06/01/2012 18:38

Mary-Lou.
Gwendoline was the baddy!

jeee · 06/01/2012 18:38

Eustacia, Ruey Richardson, Elisaveta, Grizel, Lavender, The Robin

EdithWeston · 06/01/2012 18:38

And wasn't there Zerelda (American, with unsuitable hair?)

heather1 · 06/01/2012 18:39

Roberta? Cant remember if MT or StC`s tho

Northernlurker · 06/01/2012 18:39

Enid Blyton did NOT write the CHalet School books. They were written by Elinor M, Brent Dyer. Consider your wrist slapped OP Grin

Names:

Darrell, Sally

Chalet School - Joey, Madge, Daisy, Helena (len), Margot, Gisela, Grizel, Juliet, Peggy, Mary Lou, Jacynth, Gay, Lavender, Julie, Viola, Nancy

You can tell which ones I liked can't you?

jeee · 06/01/2012 18:39

I didn't read the title properly - the names I mentioned are all Elinor M Brent-Dyer, and not Enid Blyton.

Northernlurker · 06/01/2012 18:41

Bride
Maeve
Verity
Naomi
Bernhilda
Bette
Wanda
MArie
Frieda

PurplePidjin · 06/01/2012 18:41

Darrell, Sally, Alicia, Irene, Betty from Malory Towers

Patricia, Isobel, Ellen, Kathleen, Claudine, Antoinette from St Claire's

I wasn't into Chalet School as much but lots of beautiful French and German names for inspiration

PurplePidjin · 06/01/2012 18:42

Wilhemina and Clarissa the horsy ones

Carlotta the gypsy

GwendolineMaryLacey · 06/01/2012 18:43

Oi :) Baddy...

danceswithyarn · 06/01/2012 18:44

Hilary - the sensible one usually form captain unless one of the others needed to screw it up in the story.
Carlotta (might have been St Clare's) the circus girl
Bill was the horsey one with lots of brothers

EdithWeston · 06/01/2012 18:45

For the Enid Blyton ones, the wiki pages have lists of the characters: Malory Towers and St Clare's.

Seeing as I went through a phase when I read and reread school stories obsessively, I was surprised at how few I remembered!

SauvignonBlanche · 06/01/2012 18:45

OMG! Blush Blush I do apologise Gwendoline

KateF · 06/01/2012 18:45

Chalet School-Josephine, Margaret, Daphne, Cecilia, Felicity, Helena, Constance, Philippa (I have one of those!), Sybil, Josette, Aline, Daisy....and that's just Jo's family!

learningtofly · 06/01/2012 18:46

Daphne was another name from mallory towers

I always like Lavender Leigh from chalet school

KateF · 06/01/2012 18:48

I also have one with middle name of Mary-Louise and I do call her Mary-Lou sometimesGrin

gazzalw · 06/01/2012 18:49

According to DW, who devoured the whole set as a tween, Josephine started off as a school girl and ended up as an elder of the school with her own daughters having passed through the system..... She can't really remember any of the other characters but said that now she's been reminded we must get the set for DD....

seeker · 06/01/2012 18:53

Richenda
Ruehanna
Blossom
Gurtrude
Simons
Frieda
Aline
Lavender
Muriel (known as Tom)

GwendolineMaryLacey · 06/01/2012 18:55

:o

I never read the Chalet School but loved MT and SC. Were they any good? I always felt they were a bit like Arsenal/Tottenham. If you did one, you didn't do the other!

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