History Characters / ChaletSchool

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Is it 'Lepattre' or 'Lapattre'? [=EBD=] has used both spellings.

%%* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: She really, really wants to have one with Joey in ''The School at the Chalet''. Joey isn't so keen.

* ManOnFire: Len in ''Carola Storms'', when Grizel Cochrane is smoking and careless throws her match away, and Len's Chinese outfit catches fire. Luckily, [[LeeroyJenkins Carola Johnstone]] is able to save her in time and she's not seriously hurt, other than a long scorch mark on one arm.

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: Everyone loves the Robin in the early years (except [[{{Jerkass}} Matron Webb)]], and when she's older, she's a much-loved prefect and Head Girl.

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: Elisaveta is loved by both her people and her classmates alike, and with good reason.

* SenpaiKohai: Has this dynamic with Len, her dormitory prefect. Jack latches on to her and bombards her with questions, as she thinks Len is better equipped to answer them than the other girls in her form. She also tells Len that she's going to emulate her, to Len's bewilderment. Unfortunately, this comes back to bite Len in ''Jane'', as it's the reason for Jack's nastiness towards Jane.

* SempaiKohai: Has this dynamic with Len, her dormitory prefect. Jack latches on to her and bombards her with questions, as she thinks Len is better equipped to answer them than the other girls in her form. She also tells Len that she's going to emulate her, to Len's bewilderment. Unfortunately, this comes back to bite Len in ''Jane'', as it's the reason for Jack's nastiness towards Jane.

* PoisonousFriend: As far as Joey is concerned. When Emerence and Margot become friends in ''Changes'', Joey is worried that Emerence will be a bad influence on Margot.

* PoisonousFriend: As far as the Lilleys and the likes of Joey and Mary-Lou are concerned, anyway. One reason why Ros's parents are happy for her to go to the school is because they fear that Joan is a bad influence.

* CriticalResearchFailure: In-universe example. Cornelia suggests starting a feud with the Saint Scholastika's girls in ''Rivals'', and together with her group of friends, decides to start a branch of the Ku Klux Klan after reading about them in an ''Literature/ElsieDinsmore'' book. According to Margia Stevens, the [=KKK=]'s exploits consisted of 'beating people and sticking coffins against doors'. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan#Activities The reality was very, very different.]]

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: She really, really wants to have one with Joey in ''The School at the Chalet''. Joey isn't so keen.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Dick, who's considerably more laid-back than either of his brothers-in-law.

A young doctor at the Sonnalpe Sanatorium in the Tyrol, who befriends Joey Bettany and later marries her. When the Sanatorium sets up a branch in Switzerland, he becomes its head and the Maynards move out to Switzerland.

Madge's twin brother Dick - who receives the least screentime of the three Bettany siblings - his wife Mollie, and their children. In age order, they are: twins Margaret and Richard, aka Peggy and Rix[[note]]born in ''The Princess of the Chalet School''[[/note]], Bridget (Bride)[[note]]born in ''The Head Girl of the Chalet School''[[/note]], Jackie[[note]]born at some point while Dick and Mollie were in India[[/note]], twins Maeve and Maurice, and Daphne. Both Bride and Peggy are Head Girls during the St Briavel's years, with books named after them, while Maeve becomes Head Girl during the Swiss years.

Madge and Jem's children. In age order, they are: David[[note]]born in ''Eustacia Goes to the Chalet School''[[/note]], Sybil[[note]]born in ''The Chalet School and the Lintons''[[/note]], Josephine (Josette), Aline (Ailie)[[note]]born in ''Jo to the Rescue''[[/note]], and twins Kevin and Kester.

* TeamMom: Peggy is this for her sisters. Bride is relatively OK with it, but Maeve isn't and Bride finds herself having to mediate between them, such as when she catches Maeve and her friends doing jujitsu in ''Wrong'' and deals with it herself, as she knows Peggy will come down harshly on Maeve.

* AllGirlsArePrudes: She gets embarrassed easily when trying to explain to Jack Maynard that Joan Baker talks about boys, and can barely get the word 'boys' out.

* IllGirl: This is one of the reasons why Madge wanted to go to the Tirol in the first place; she thought the mountain air would do her sickly little sister good. Which it does, but Joey is very, very prone to illnesses, and has more than one near-death experience as a result. Even standing too near an open door lands her in bed for days. [[spoiler:In ''Rivals'' she falls into an icy lake and ends up with pleuro-pneumonia and a high fever, to the point where Jem is worried that her life is in danger. She survives, barely.]]

* IllGirl: Like their mother, Margot and Phil both have health problems; Phil has mastoiditis as a toddler, while Margot is considered 'delicate' and is PutOnABus to Canada for a while to help her grow stronger.

* IllGirl: Josette is badly scalded after the accident with Sybil and the kettle, and her health isn't great for years afterwards. She does eventually get better, though.

* IllGirl: Her mother died of TB, and Robin herself is at risk and suffers from poor health as a child, to the point where Jem and Madge are constantly keeping an eye on her and warning her not to over-tire herself or worry too much, or it will make her ill. In ''Jo of the Chalet School'', Jo goes from HeroicBSOD when Robin is taken ill, to running wild and playing pranks when Robin turns a corner. As an adult, she has to give up social work when it poses a risk to her health, and Jem worries about the possibility of her having children as she could end up dying in childbirth.

* IllGirl: Suffers injuries to her back as a result of her accident, and it takes a while before she is able to sit up, let alone walk, again.

* CharacterisationMarchesOn: In the La Rochelle books, Barbara is a SpoiledBrat IllGirl, but when she joins the Chalet School, she's much nicer. Admittedly she does have trouble doing this for herself, because of being so reliant on her mother - Matey has to remind her to clean up the bath after she's used it - but she soon becomes a member of Mary-Lou's Gang and is just like any other prefect in the later Swiss books.

* IllGirl: Barbara is this for most of her childhood - to the point where her mother spoils her rotten and the rest of the family have to cater to her every whim - and misses out on school until she turns 14 and goes to Switzerland, with Beth to keep an eye on her. Although the original plan is for her to be a day girl and live with the Maynards, an outbreak of measles in their family results in her boarding instead, which helps her to become more independent and make friends her own age.

* SpottingTheThread: How she figures out that Thekla is lying about why she was out of bed in ''Lintons''. [[spoiler:Thekla claims she heard Joyce Linton walking in the corridor and got up to investigate, despite Joyce being barefoot. Miss Wilson sends for Margia Stevens, who is head of Thekla's dormitory, and Margia confirms that Thekla is a heavy sleeper. She also states that she did not hear any footsteps, despite being a light sleeper herself. Miss Wilson asks Thekla how she, a heavy sleeper, managed to hear Joyce but Margia, a light sleeper, did not, and Thekla gets caught out soon after.]]

* {{Troll}}: In ''Lintons'', Joey falls on her by accident and Miss Wilson has an absolute field day making fun of her, and asking if Joey's out to get her.