History Literature / TheMarlowSeries

* AuthorAvatar: Patrick in ''The Attic Term'', for Antonia Forest's views on Vatican II.

* [[UngratefulBastard UngratefulBitch]]: Lawrie is awarded the Prosser Scholarship in ''The Cricket Term'' [[spoiler:for giving up her part in ''The Tempest'' and letting Miranda play Ariel]]. Nicola is glad as it means she can stay on at Kingscote, as Mrs Marlow was considering taking her out of school as she couldn't afford to pay for four girls (despite [[RichInDollarsPoorInSense spunking a load of money on horses]]). Lawrie, however, is miserable and has a tantrum because [[spoiler:she wanted to play Caliban]].

* AllGirlsLovePonies: Rowan, Ginty, Mrs Marlow and the twins are all enthusiastic riders and participate in a few hunts, as well as owning their own ponies.

* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: Peter [[spoiler:shooting the Admiral]] in ''The Marlows and the Traitor'', Nicola [[spoiler:stabbing a paedophile who is attempting to kidnap Rose]] in ''The Ready Made Family'' and Patrick [[spoiler:pointing a pistol, which turns out to be loaded, at his head and only being saved by Nicola knocking it out of his hand]] in ''Peter's Room''.

** Nicola's form are big fans of ''Television/StarTrek''.

* ShoutOut: ''The Attic Term'' mentions a 'Literature/ChaletSchool'' book (it's ''The Chalet School Does It Again''), along with Elsie J Oxenham's ''Abbey'' series.
** Nicola's form are big fans of ''Series/StarTrek''.

* ReadingIsCoolAesop: Nicola Marlow is a passionate and involved reader. She's stricken by the end of [[Literature/HoratioHornblower Flying Colours]], enjoys Ramage because he knew Hornblower, reads TheCruelSea because it's about the Navy, reads Hakluyt because it's in her family library, and reads Persuasion because she's been told every other male character is in the Navy. She also discovers and relishes MaryRenault's ''The Mask Of Apollo'' in her local library in 1974. One novel in the series, ''Peter's Room'' is structured as an exploration of the [[EmilyBronte Brontë sisters]] invention of an imaginary world. How many readers of the Marlow books were led to read Hornblower because Forester was right next to Forest on the shelves?

* PetTheDog In ''Autumn Term'' Lois Sanger, the Marlow twins' arch nemesis, who gets them both kicked out of Guides earlier in the book, and makes trouble for Nicola Marlow later on in the series. Their form opt to put on a production of ''Literature/ThePrinceAndThePauper'' for the school festival, and Tim Keith, who writes the play, wants to narrate. However, Tim is terrible and Lawrie Marlow panics about the play being a failure. Tim remembers hearing that Lois is a good reader, and when she shows her the script, Lois is impressed with it and offers to do the narration herself, effectively saving the play.

* PolarOppositeTwins Nicola and Lawrie Marlow - physically identical but very unalike in character, personality, mannerisms, and talents.

* [[ReadingIsCoolAesop Reading Is Cool]] Nicola Marlow is a passionate and involved reader. She's stricken by the end of [[HoratioHornblower Flying Colours]], enjoys Ramage because he knew Hornblower, reads TheCruelSea because it's about the Navy, reads Hakluyt because it's in her family library, and reads Persuasion because she's been told every other male character is in the Navy. She also discovers and relishes MaryRenault's ''The Mask Of Apollo'' in her local library in 1974. One novel in the series, ''Peter's Room'' is structured as an exploration of the [[EmilyBronte Brontë sisters]] invention of an imaginary world. How many readers of the Marlow books were led to read Hornblower because Forester was right next to Forest on the shelves?

* SchoolPlay In three out of the four school novels the SchoolPlay is an important plot strand - Lawrie Marlow, the youngest of the Marlow children, is discovered to have an astonishing talent for acting in her form's performance of ''Literature/ThePrinceAndThePauper'' in ''Autumn Term'', in ''End of Term'' she plays St Stephen in the school nativity play, and ''The Cricket Term'' a plot strand turns on her being given the part of Ariel and wanting to do Caliban in ''Theatre/TheTempest''. And in ''Run Away Home'', Lawrie [[ItMakesSenseInContext plays a monkey in another child's school play]].

* [[PetTheDog]] In ''Autumn Term'' Lois Sanger, the Marlow twins' arch nemesis, who gets them both kicked out of Guides earlier in the book, and makes trouble for Nicola Marlow later on in the series. Their form opt to put on a production of ''Literature/ThePrinceAndThePauper'' for the school festival, and Tim Keith, who writes the play, wants to narrate. However, Tim is terrible and Lawrie Marlow panics about the play being a failure. Tim remembers hearing that Lois is a good reader, and when she shows her the script, Lois is impressed with it and offers to do the narration herself, effectively saving the play.

* [[PolarOppositeTwins]] Nicola and Lawrie Marlow - physically identical but very unalike in character, personality, mannerisms, and talents.

* In three out of the four school novels the [[SchoolPlay]] is an important plot strand - Lawrie Marlow, the youngest of the Marlow children, is discovered to have an astonishing talent for acting in her form's performance of ''Literature/ThePrinceAndThePauper'' in ''Autumn Term'', in ''End of Term'' she plays St Stephen in the school nativity play, and ''The Cricket Term'' a plot strand turns on her being given the part of Ariel and wanting to do Caliban in ''Theatre/TheTempest''. And in ''Run Away Home'', Lawrie [[ItMakesSenseInContext plays a monkey in another child's school play]].

# ''The Players and the Rebels'' (1971)