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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: As a schoolgirl, she was lazy and had no particular fondness for maths...and ends up teaching it when she comes back. She's also more responsible, though still one of the more laid-back teachers.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: In ''Summer Term'', she and Erica encounter some beatnik girls on a train and Joey goes into a big rant about how the girls' scruffy, unkempt appearance means they need a 'capable nanny and a good tubbing', and that they clearly can't be trusted as they have no self-respect. This is a bit rich coming from a woman whose hair was frequently described as being like a golliwog's when short, and who was constantly pulled up by Madge for untidiness. Both the narrator and other girls also note that while Joey can be matey when she wants to be, she's very quick to go into Head Girl Mode and be 'on her dignity' if other girls try to banter with or tease her. Joyce Linton even calls her out on it, saying she can make fun of younger girls but they can't do it back.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: In ''Summer Term'', she and Erica encounter some beatnik girls on a train and Joey goes into a big rant about how the girls' scruffy, unkempt appearance means they need a 'capable nanny and a good tubbing', and that they clearly can't be trusted as they have no self-respect. This is a bit rich coming from a woman whose hair was frequently described as being like a golliwog's when short, and who was constantly pulled up by Madge for untidiness. Both the narrator and other girls also note that while Joey can be matey when she wants to be, she's very quick to go into Head Girl Mode and be 'on her dignity' if other girls try to banter with or tease her. Joyce Linton even calls her out on it, saying she Joey can make fun of younger girls but they can't do it back.
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* WeightWoe: She considers going to a health farm to lose weight after Joey makes fun of her about it. Jem reassures her that he loves her just the way she is.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: In ''Summer Term'', she and Erica encounter some beatnik girls on a train and Joey goes into a big rant about how the girls' scruffy, unkempt appearance means they need a 'capable nanny and a good tubbing', and that they clearly can't be trusted as they have no self-respect. This is a bit rich coming from a woman whose hair was frequently described as being like a golliwog's when short, and who was constantly pulled up by Madge for untidiness. Both the narrator and other girls also note that while Joey can be matey when she wants to be, she's very quick to go into Head Girl Mode and be 'on her dignity' if other girls try to banter with or tease her. Joyce Linton even calls her out on it, saying she can make fun of younger girls but they can't do it back.
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* CharacterFilibuster: Her speech about the importance of girls learning homemaking skills in ''Camp'', as it's every woman's destiny to keep house and raise children, and women who can't or won't are clearly deficient and should be pitied, and that emancipation from drudgery is a lot of old nonsense (despite the fact that she's an unmarried science teacher and a university graduate herself).
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* CharacterFilibuster/HoldingTheFloor: Does this a lot throughout the series. One example is when she lectures Jessica Wayne about Jesus and ThePowerOfFriendship, and how the Disciples were happy to share Jesus' friendship rather than keeping it to themselves.
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* CharacterFilibuster/HoldingTheFloor: Does this a lot throughout the series. One example is when she lectures Jessica Wayne about Jesus and ThePowerOfFriendship, and how the Disciples were happy to share Jesus' friendship rather than keeping it to themselves.
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* SaveOurStudents: She's dropped in at the deep end in ''New Mistress'' by being given the experimental new Inter V form, a form for girls whose work is not up to Fifth Form standards, but who are too old for lower forms, or girls who are between removes. Said form contains [[SmallNameBigEgo Yseult]] [[DumbBlonde Pertwee]], whose work is extremely poor, Francie Wilford, and a few other difficult girls, but Miss Ferrars manages to keep them in line. In ''Two Sams'', she and Miss Stone swap forms; Miss Stone despairs of her lazy, sports-mad form and Miss Annersley suggests Miss Ferrars swap with her because of her sparky personality and love of sports. It pays off.
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* BeautifulSingingVoice: Is one of the best singers in the school in the Tyrol years, with a voice like a chorister's, to the point where she seriously considers studying music at one point. She is always called on to sing the solos in Christmas plays and other occasions when the girls have a singsong. As an adult, she's called in to sing a few times as well, such as the St Patrick's Day celebrations in ''Two Sams''.
* BeautifulSingingVoice: Margot, like her mother, is called on to sing solos in school plays (sometimes to lyrics written by Con). All three triplets also play string instruments.
* {{Sleepwalking}}: One of Con's biggest problems is that she does this a lot, especially when she's upset or stressed. In ''Carola'', she has frequent nightmares after another girl tells scary stories and is found in the coal cellar one night after sleepwalking, and in ''Joey Goes to the Oberland'', she even sleepwalks out onto the roof and Joey has to try and get her down. In ''Triplets'', she has a particularly bad episode after she, Len and Michelle Cabran, a younger girl, are caught in a terrible blizzard and it's all they can do just to struggle back to school, and she has to stay with Winnie Embury for a few days to recover.
* BlueBlood: The daughter of an Austrian Graf, or count, and one of the few upper-class pupils. Unlike her distant cousin [[UpperClassTwit Thekla]], though, she's not a snob at all and is more SpoiledSweet.
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* {{Ojou}} / ProperLady: Is considered to be the most beautiful girl in the school, often compared to a fairytale princess because of her long, curly blonde hair (which lands her the starring role in school plays), and is the daughter of an Austrian count (or Graf). She later marries an aristocrat, Count Eugen von und zu Wertheim.
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* {{Trigger}}: Being caught in floods/running water. It happens in ''Reunion'' and she has to be given Schnapps to calm her down, as she's very shaken.
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* TookALevelInKindness: In ''Reunion'', when she notices that Mary-Lou is feeling better after coming to terms with her grief over [[spoiler:her mother's death]]. Joey thinks that the old Grizel would never have noticed something like that.
* ApronMatron: But of course. She's got a kind heart under that tough, no-nonsense exterior.
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* KickTheDog: She doesn't do it herself, but being mean to her is considered to be an act of dog-kicking. The already unpopular Matron Besley gets sacked in ''Princess'' for locking her in a room, for instance.
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* ProneToTears: Her aunt Cynthia describes her as a 'sensitive plant' and a 'clever, sensitive girl who worships beauty'. Miss Wilson is not impressed.
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* StepfordSmiler: After [[spoiler:her mother dies in ''Reunion'']]. Joey knows Mary-Lou is bottling up her feelings and encourages her to let them out, which she later does.
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* InformedAttribute: While Emerence is a huge pain in the arse in her debut book, and is in and out of trouble throughout her time at the Chalet School, it's debatable whether she's really one of the worst pupils the school's ever had, especially when it's had pupils who are outright bullies (Jack Lambert, Thekla, Ruth Wilson and Margot) - something Emerence has never done herself - traitors (Betty Wynne-Davies) or who have almost killed another girl (Margot again). She also becomes much nicer after the tobogganing incident in ''Mary-Lou''.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: While Eustacia accidentally injuring Miss Wilson didn't help, she's right that she herself didn't cause the blizzard (and the party could have ended up on the mountain anyway). It's also not her fault the Robin is ill from worrying (and one could argue that if the Robin was so delicate that Joey going missing literally made her ill with worry, she should never have been on the expedition in the first place). And Napoleon Bonaparte, Joey's hero, ''did'' commit a lot of atrocities.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: While Eustacia accidentally injuring Miss Wilson didn't help, she's right that she herself didn't cause the blizzard (and blizzard, not to mention that the party could have ended up stranded on the mountain anyway). even if Miss Wilson hadn't hurt her foot. It's also not her fault the Robin is has made herself ill from worrying (and one could argue that if the Robin was so delicate that Joey going missing literally made her ill with worry, she should never have been on the expedition in the first place). And Napoleon Bonaparte, Joey's hero, ''did'' commit a lot of atrocities.
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* InsufferableGenius: one of the earliest and most notable examples of this in the series. At least, until she has the accident.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: While Eustacia accidentally injuring Miss Wilson didn't help, she's right that she herself didn't cause the blizzard (and the party could have ended up on the mountain anyway). It's also not her fault the Robin is ill from worrying (and one could argue that if the Robin was so delicate that Joey going missing literally made her ill with worry, she should never have been on the expedition in the first place). And Napoleon Bonaparte, Joey's hero, ''did'' commit a lot of atrocities.
* JerkassHasAPoint: While Eustacia accidentally injuring Miss Wilson didn't help, she's right that she herself didn't cause the blizzard (and the party could have ended up on the mountain anyway). It's also not her fault the Robin is ill from worrying (and one could argue that if the Robin was so delicate that Joey going missing literally made her ill with worry, she should never have been on the expedition in the first place). And Napoleon Bonaparte, Joey's hero, ''did'' commit a lot of atrocities.
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* OdangoHair: Or rather, the Princess Leia variety. It's her signature hairstyle after she grows it out. She wears her hair in a pair of plaited buns.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Her reaction to Joey calling her an idiot in ''The Chalet Girls in Camp''.
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* WorstAid: When Sybil accidentally spills boiling water on Josette in ''Gay from China'', she panics and tries to get Josette's clothes off. Unfortunately, when she takes Josette's vest off, quite a bit of Josette's skin sloughs off as well.
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* [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Girl]]: The most academic out of the Quartette, and the only one who goes to university, a rare thing for a woman in those days. It's also because she's less well off than the other three and needs to get a job to support her family.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Even she gets involved in the hair flouring prank in ''Rivals'', much to Madge's shock.
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* DisproportionateRetribution / [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]]: She responds to Fiona trapping her finger in a deckchair and making fun of her by [[spoiler:plotting to steal the Chart of Erisay, an important document containing secrets about the twins' home. Not only that, but she almost hands it over to a Nazi spy after he overhears her talking about it and corners her - luckily Joey has the chart at home. Not only that, but she plans to use the twins to get at [[KickTheDog Robin]] and Daisy as well, as she has a grudge against them.]]
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* DisproportionateRetribution / [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]]: She responds to Fiona trapping her finger in a deckchair and making fun of her by [[spoiler:plotting to steal the Chart of Erisay, an important document containing secrets about the twins' home. Not only that, but she almost hands it over to a Nazi spy after he overhears her talking about it and corners her - luckily Joey has the chart at home. Not only that, but she plans to use the twins to get at [[KickTheDog Robin]] and Daisy as well, as she has a grudge against them.]]them.
* {{Foil}}: To Elizabeth. Elizabeth is the one who comes up with ideas and Betty is the one who carries them out, both in ''The New Chalet School'' and ''Exile'', but while Betty never matures, has few real friends and is in and out of trouble, Elizabeth - inspired by Miss Linton - becomes more mature, takes an interest in work and generally becomes nicer. Elizabeth ends up as a Head Girl, while Betty is the second girl to be expelled from the school.
* {{Foil}}: To Elizabeth. Elizabeth is the one who comes up with ideas and Betty is the one who carries them out, both in ''The New Chalet School'' and ''Exile'', but while Betty never matures, has few real friends and is in and out of trouble, Elizabeth - inspired by Miss Linton - becomes more mature, takes an interest in work and generally becomes nicer. Elizabeth ends up as a Head Girl, while Betty is the second girl to be expelled from the school.
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* SympathyForTheDevil: Expressed by both Miss Annersley in ''Highland Twins'' and Biddy O'Ryan - one of Betty's former friends - in ''Bride Leads''. Although Miss Annersley expels Betty because of the sheer horror of what she did, she also does it because she knows that, had Betty stayed on at the Chalet School, the other girls would have made her life hell and she would have been miserable. She also knows that Betty's guardian, Mr Irons, could not care less about her and has almost nothing to do with her. After Betty goes to stay with Janie Lucy and then Mrs Graves, an old friend of her mother, she [[TookALevelInKindness begins to reform.]]
* WeUsedToBeFriends: With Elizabeth - see Foil above. Elizabeth moves on from Betty and makes other friends, and Betty does ''not'' take it well at all. Elizabeth blames herself for Betty's SlowlySlippingIntoEvil and, rather tellingly, begs Miss Annersley to give her a chance while Florence refuses to have anything to do with Betty or even say goodbye.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: With Elizabeth - see Foil above. Elizabeth moves on from Betty and makes other friends, and Betty does ''not'' take it well at all. Elizabeth blames herself for Betty's SlowlySlippingIntoEvil and, rather tellingly, begs Miss Annersley to give her a chance while Florence refuses to have anything to do with Betty or even say goodbye.
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* PassionateSportsGirl: Wants to be a games teacher and is a big fan of lacrosse, which gets reintroduced to the Chalet School in ''Ruey'', in no small part thanks to her. She also teaches her classmates how to play.
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* GoGetterGirl: One of Mary-Lou's most distinguishing character traits. She's one of the most proactive characters in the entire series and establishes herself very quickly as leader of her form, even later getting a special position (Head of the Middle School). One thing that many characters find out about Mary-Lou: she '''gets shit done'''.
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* FeminineMotherTomboyishDaughter: Ailie turns out to be a tomboy, much to the very feminine Madge's despair.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In ''New Mistress'', she proposes Yseult Pertwee as Mary-Lou's understudy in the school play, as Yseult is desperate to play Herod - a role which has been given to Mary-Lou as she's been at the school longer - and has experience acting. Unfortunately, Yseult becomes so obsessed with the play and the chance to play Herod that she plots to injure Mary-Lou and take her part, although her plan fails thanks to a dose of LaserGuidedKarma.
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* [[HeroesLoveDogs HeroinesLoveDogs]]: Rufus and Bruno. See BigFriendlyDog above. ([=EBD=], incidentally, was a dog lover herself, particularly German shepherd dogs, and even wrote books on the subject called ''Kennelmaid Nan'' and ''They Both Liked Dogs''.)
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* EveryoneHatesMaths: Miss Maynard - who ends up becoming Joey's sister-in-law - despairs of Joey's lack of mathematical ability and Joey herself is only too happy to drop it when the time comes. She is ''not'' happy when she is given extra maths classes after Herr Laubach refuses to take her for art anymore.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: She originally punishes Margot for throwing a sparkler on the floor in prep by not allowing her to go home and prepare for the triplets' birthday party, instead making her go home later with the guests. However, she changes her mind when she realises it would be unfair on Len and Con, and both of them are upset about the prospect of Margot not being there.
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* {{Adorkable}}: In the first chapter, when she gets confirmation of her new job, she's very excited and acting more like a teenage girl than a university graduate.
