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

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

Oh, I forgot which Black Girl was good at running....

It is a bit racist to refer to black people continually as such though.... although I'm sure Anne Digby thought she was being terribly right-on to have a Black Girl at all, it was a tad dodgy to have the Black Girl be called Aba Amori and be Good At Running, perhaps?

Thank you NorthernLurker!

Any CBB-ers here?

Elaine, I want to BE Rowan Marlow! Just to have that casual dignity that is the birthright of a Marlow. "Spring Term" is fabulous, so true to AF. I wrote a rather gushy e-mail to the author when it came out

OTOH you couldn't possibly call a baby Thekla.

'A conviction that no-one could ask for anything more of life than to be Rowan Marlow'.

Yes, that would be pretty awesome, wouldn't it?

So said Jan Scott, though really she had more than a touch of the Rowan Marlows about her herself.

Well quite. Nigerian so therefore Must Be A Good Athlete.

Thekla was a terrible racist while we're on the subject. She was from Prussian nobility and considered herself hochgeboren.

Thekla was a screaming snob who didn't like hanging around with Trade, like the daughters of bank tellers and - shock, horror - shopkeepers. Take that, Frieda Mensch and Sophie Hamel.

I have a mild, Miranda-like crush on Jan Scott - so aloof, so beautiful, so solitary and tough-minded, so right about Unflappable Rowan... (Don't quite know why I find her a lot more palatable than Rowan - maybe the fact of her being passed over for things and deemed 'uncooperative' for most of her school life?)

SilentMammoth, I knew there would be at least one CBBer on this thread!

My DD is Rowan

But what I love about af is that even the most apparently admirable characters have flaws. If Rowan thawed she wouldn't be Rowan. And the less admirable ones (lawrie, ginty, Lois) are so interesting.

For me, the most flawed good character is patrick. He is such a dumper. He dumps peter for nicola and then nicola for ginty. He has quite a nasty side.

I also love Jan, along with Miranda, the most. Of everyone, I would like to be miranda best (rather more than competent at everything and not quite as self sacrificing as the other goodies) but am probably a bit mire like janice (I tend to get labeled as uncooperative ).

And then Ginty for Nicola, if Spring Term is to be believed!

Where can I get hold of Spring Term please?

just bought it on amazon - didn't know it existed.

Yes, I can never see the attraction of Patrick. Would this boring old reactionary who only ever talks about god and falconry really have all the blonde beauties from the house up the road throwing themselves at him?

I think of him as the dark, smouldering type (and due to inherit the estate and the money).

Which would certainly appeal to Ginty, wouldn't it?

Hope you enjoy Spring Term!

Thank you Elaine.
The paperwork I am bogged down in will be even further neglected.

Ah, you can read it in an afternoon if you ignore everyone and everything else for a bit .