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** It's doubtful whether any girl outside the MBR families would not have been expelled for knocking Betty Landon out with a bookend. However, Margot gets off with a ticking-off from Miss Annersley and not much else, and Betty is ''blamed'' for being 'tactless'!
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* FanNickname - 'OOAO' for Mary-Lou, short for 'Our One And Only', and 'EBDisms' for the author's various plot holes and inconsistencies.
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* FanNickname - 'OOAO' for Mary-Lou, short for 'Our One And Only', 'MBR' for the Maynard / Bettany / Russell families, and 'EBDisms' for the author's various plot holes and inconsistencies.
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* TookALevelInJerkass - Margot Maynard around the time of ''Theodora and the Chalet School''. She goes from temperamental and merely mischievous to blackmailing Ted, throwing a bookend at another girl's head and knocking her out, and bullying her charges. Presumably this is to make her eventual vocation as a nun even more dramatic.
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* AttentionWhore - Joey in the later books, especially where babies are concerned. She seems to treat having babies as some kind of competition.
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** And then there's the racism - for instance, Joey's comment about her sons, who have been messing around with blacklead, looking like 'two little nigger boys' in ''Joey Goes to the Oberland'', and Daisy talking about 'working like a nigger'. Not to mention some of the girls in ''Rivals of the Chalet School'' starting up their own branch of the Ku Klux Klan, after reading books about them, in order to get back at the St Scholastika's girls.
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** And then there's the racism - for instance, Joey's comment about her sons, who have been messing around with blacklead, looking like 'two little nigger boys' in ''Joey Goes to the Oberland'', and Daisy Robin talking about Daisy 'working like a nigger'. Not to mention some of the girls in ''Rivals of the Chalet School'' starting up their own branch of the Ku Klux Klan, after reading books about them, in order to get back at the St Scholastika's girls.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse - Gaudenz, the school handyman who appears in the Swiss books.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse - Gaudenz, the school handyman who appears in the Swiss books.books, has his fair share of fangirls.
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* FairForItDay - [http://thisisschool.net/2012/03/20/in-defence-of-elinor-brent-dyer/ this essay] goes into more detail.
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* FairForItDay FairForItsDay - [http://thisisschool.[[http://thisisschool.net/2012/03/20/in-defence-of-elinor-brent-dyer/ this essay] essay]] goes into more detail.
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** Kathie Ferrars and Nancy Wilmot are a popular pairing in Chalet School fandom. In ''The Chalet Girls Grow Up'', a couple of characters even speculate that the two are more than friends.
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* FanNickname - OOAO for Mary-Lou, short for 'our one and only'.
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* FanNickname - OOAO 'OOAO' for Mary-Lou, short for 'our one and only'.'Our One And Only'.
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* DoubleStandard - the contrasting way certain characters' attitudes to men are handled, probably because of their backgrounds. Nice Christian girls Marie and Frieda talk about getting married and having babies? Perfectly OK. Sweary, fish-and-chips-eating, working-class Joan Baker talks about 'boys' to the other girls? She's clearly some kind of corruptive influence and it's perfectly fine for Mary-Lou to pretend to befriend her while actually planning to reform her.
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* DoubleStandard - the contrasting way certain characters' attitudes to men are handled, probably because of their backgrounds. Nice Christian girls Marie and Frieda talk about getting married and having babies? Perfectly OK. Sweary, fish-and-chips-eating, working-class Joan Baker talks about 'boys' to the other girls? She's clearly some kind of corruptive influence and it's perfectly fine for Mary-Lou Trelawney to pretend to befriend her while actually planning to reform her.
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* TheScrappy - Mary-Lou Trelawney is disliked by a good few fans for being a self-righteous goody-two-shoes (particularly when she's a prefect), and getting away with talking smack to the teachers because 'it's not cheek, it's Mary-Lou' (see DoubleStandard above). It doesn't help when EBD makes Kathie Ferrars look like an unreasonable bad guy when she - quite understandably - has a problem with Mary-Lou's over-familiarity in ''A New Mistress at the Chalet School''. Merryn Williams evidently hated her, judging how she made Mary-Lou behave towards Len in ''The Chalet Girls Grow Up''.
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* TheScrappy - Mary-Lou Trelawney is disliked by a good few fans for being a self-righteous goody-two-shoes (particularly when she's a prefect), and getting away with talking smack to the teachers because 'it's not cheek, it's Mary-Lou' (see DoubleStandard above). It doesn't help when EBD makes Kathie Ferrars look like an unreasonable bad guy when she - quite understandably - has a problem with Mary-Lou's over-familiarity in ''A New Mistress at the Chalet School''. Merryn Williams evidently hated her, judging how she made Mary-Lou behave towards Len in ''The Chalet Girls Grow Up''.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation - is Joey a lovable GenkiGirl who embodies the spirit of the school, or an immature nutter who has some serious growing up to do?
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation - is Joey a lovable GenkiGirl who embodies the spirit of the school, or an immature nutter weirdo who won't let go of her childhood and has some serious growing up to do?
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation - is Joey a lovable GenkiGirl who embodies the spirit of the school, or an immature nutter who has some serious growing up to do?
** The Chalet School itself: the school every girl would have dreamed of going to, or a repressive, ultra-conformist CrapsaccharineWorld?
** The Chalet School itself: the school every girl would have dreamed of going to, or a repressive, ultra-conformist CrapsaccharineWorld?
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** There's a heavy emphasis on obedience and religion, especially Catholicism, and one girl shocks her peers by saying that she is an atheist.
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** There's a heavy emphasis on obedience and religion, especially Catholicism, and one girl shocks her peers by saying that she is an atheist. agnostic. Needless to say, she's convinced into believing in G-d after an avalanche.
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** Speaking of Mary-Lou, there are arguably some ''major'' double standards applied to her in-universe. She can be as cheeky as she wants to the teachers because it's her way, but heaven forbid other girls act like that. Also, 'sneaking' is considered a crime in the Chalet School - Miss Wilson tells Eustacia where to go when she tries it - yet there are no repercussions when she runs off to the Maynards to talk about Joan Baker in ''Problem for the Chalet School''.
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** Speaking of Mary-Lou, there are arguably some ''major'' double standards applied to her in-universe. She can be as cheeky as she wants to the teachers because it's her way, but heaven forbid you get the impression other girls act like that.wouldn't get away with the same thing. Also, 'sneaking' is considered a crime in the Chalet School - Miss Wilson tells Eustacia where to go when she tries it - yet there are no repercussions when she runs off to the Maynards to talk about Joan Baker in ''Problem for the Chalet School''.
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** Speaking of Mary-Lou, there seem to be double standards applied to her in-universe. She can be as cheeky as she wants to the teachers because it's her way, but heaven forbid other girls act like that.
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** Speaking of Mary-Lou, there seem to be are arguably some ''major'' double standards applied to her in-universe. She can be as cheeky as she wants to the teachers because it's her way, but heaven forbid other girls act like that. Also, 'sneaking' is considered a crime in the Chalet School - Miss Wilson tells Eustacia where to go when she tries it - yet there are no repercussions when she runs off to the Maynards to talk about Joan Baker in ''Problem for the Chalet School''.
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* TheScrappy - Mary-Lou Trelawney is disliked by a good few fans for being a self-righteous goody-two-shoes (particularly when she's a prefect), and getting away with talking smack to the teachers because 'it's not cheek, it's Mary-Lou'.Mary-Lou' (see DoubleStandard above). It doesn't help when EBD makes Kathie Ferrars look like an unreasonable bad guy when she - quite understandably - has a problem with Mary-Lou's over-familiarity in ''A New Mistress at the Chalet School''. Merryn Williams evidently hated her, judging how she made Mary-Lou behave towards Len in ''The Chalet Girls Grow Up''.
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* DoubleStandard - certain characters' attitude to men, probably because of their backgrounds. Nice Christian girls Marie and Frieda talk about getting married and having babies? Perfectly OK. Sweary, cheeky, working-class Joan Baker talks about 'boys' to the other girls? She's clearly some kind of corruptive influence and it's perfectly fine for Mary-Lou to pretend to befriend her while actually planning to reform her.
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* DoubleStandard - the contrasting way certain characters' attitude attitudes to men, men are handled, probably because of their backgrounds. Nice Christian girls Marie and Frieda talk about getting married and having babies? Perfectly OK. Sweary, cheeky, fish-and-chips-eating, working-class Joan Baker talks about 'boys' to the other girls? She's clearly some kind of corruptive influence and it's perfectly fine for Mary-Lou to pretend to befriend her while actually planning to reform her.
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* DoubleStandard - certain characters' attitude to men, probably because of their backgrounds. Nice Christian girls Marie and Frieda talk about getting married and having babies? Perfectly OK. Sweary, cheeky, working-class Joan Baker talks about 'boys' to the other girls? She's clearly some kind of corruptive influence and it's perfectly fine for Mary-Lou to pretend to befriend her while actually planning to reform her.
** Speaking of Mary-Lou, there seem to be double standards applied to her in-universe. She can be as cheeky as she wants to the teachers because it's her way, but heaven forbid other girls act like that.
** Speaking of Mary-Lou, there seem to be double standards applied to her in-universe. She can be as cheeky as she wants to the teachers because it's her way, but heaven forbid other girls act like that.
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* TheScrappy - Mary-Lou Trelawney is disliked by a lot of fans for being a self-righteous goody-two-shoes (particularly when she's a prefect), and getting away with talking smack to the teachers because 'it's not cheek, it's Mary-Lou'. Merryn Williams evidently hated her, judging how she made Mary-Lou behave towards Len in ''The Chalet Girls Grow Up''.
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* TheScrappy - Mary-Lou Trelawney is disliked by a lot of good few fans for being a self-righteous goody-two-shoes (particularly when she's a prefect), and getting away with talking smack to the teachers because 'it's not cheek, it's Mary-Lou'.Mary-Lou'. It doesn't help when EBD makes Kathie Ferrars look like an unreasonable bad guy when she - quite understandably - has a problem with Mary-Lou's over-familiarity in ''A New Mistress at the Chalet School''. Merryn Williams evidently hated her, judging how she made Mary-Lou behave towards Len in ''The Chalet Girls Grow Up''.
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* TheScrappy - Mary-Lou Trelawney is disliked by a lot of fans for being a self-righteous goody-two-shoes (particularly when she's a prefect), and getting away with talking smack to the teachers because 'it's not cheek, it's Mary-Lou'. Merryn Williams evidently hated her, judging how she behaves made Mary-Lou behave towards Len in ''The Chalet Girls Grow Up''.
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* JerkassWoobie - Grizel Cochrane, the resident BrokenBird. Yes, she can be a real bitch to the younger and less cynical kids, and a lot of the pupils are scared of her when she becomes a teacher, but she has a terrible relationship with her father and stepmother, and suffers some pretty nasty injuries throughout the series. Plus she never wanted to be a music teacher in the first place and only trained as one because her father would have cut her off otherwise.
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** And then there's the racism - for instance, Joey's comment about her sons, who have been messing around with blacklead, looking like 'two little nigger boys' in ''Joey Goes to the Oberland''.
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** And then there's the racism - for instance, Joey's comment about her sons, who have been messing around with blacklead, looking like 'two little nigger boys' in ''Joey Goes to the Oberland''.Oberland'', and Daisy talking about 'working like a nigger'. Not to mention some of the girls in ''Rivals of the Chalet School'' starting up their own branch of the Ku Klux Klan, after reading books about them, in order to get back at the St Scholastika's girls.
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* {{Glurge}} - to the more cynical modern reader, some of the books can come across as immensely glurgey, particularly the ones with heavy emphasis on religion.
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* StayInTheKitchen - usually, when any serious problems come up, the female characters have to stand aside and let the male characters take a hand.
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* StayInTheKitchen - usually, when any serious problems come up, the female characters have to stand aside and let the male characters take a hand.over. Particularly jarring when you consider how few male characters there are compared to female ones.
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** The 'feminine' subjects appear to get more emphasis than traditionally more masculime subjects, such as maths and science. Girls are expected to be proficient in subjects such as cooking and sewing, so that they will make good wives (see above). Joey gets no end of flak from the Tirolean girls about her failure at sewing.
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** The 'feminine' subjects appear to get more emphasis than traditionally more masculime masculine subjects, such as maths and science. Girls are expected to be proficient in subjects such as cooking and sewing, so that they will make good wives (see above). Joey gets no end of flak from the Tirolean girls about her failure at sewing.
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* UnfortunateImplications / ValuesDissonance - where do we begin?
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* UnfortunateImplications / ValuesDissonance - where do we begin? (Consider that the series began in the '20s and ended in the early '60s.)
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** Girls are expected to give up their jobs once they marry and become housewives. For instance, one character, Julie Lucy, is a barrister, and when she gets engaged, another character remarks that she'll have to give it up as she won't have time 'as the wife of a housemaster'.
** Men's job is to protect their daughters and wives, and the female characters are always deferential to them, even the headmistresses (to Jack, Jem and the other San doctors). EBD also seemed to equate feminism with hating men, if Joey's comments in ''The Chalet School Reunion'' are anything to go by.
** The 'feminine' subjects appear to get more emphasis than traditionally more masculime subjects, such as maths and science. Girls are expected to be proficient in subjects such as cooking and sewing, so that they will make good wives (see above). Joey gets no end of flak from the Tirolean girls about her failure at sewing.
** There's a heavy emphasis on obedience and religion, especially Catholicism, and one girl shocks her peers by saying that she is an atheist.
** And then there's the racism - for instance, Joey's comment about her sons, who have been messing around with blacklead, looking like 'two little nigger boys' in ''Joey Goes to the Oberland''.
** Girls are expected to give up their jobs once they marry and become housewives. For instance, one character, Julie Lucy, is a barrister, and when she gets engaged, another character remarks that she'll have to give it up as she won't have time 'as the wife of a housemaster'.
** Men's job is to protect their daughters and wives, and the female characters are always deferential to them, even the headmistresses (to Jack, Jem and the other San doctors). EBD also seemed to equate feminism with hating men, if Joey's comments in ''The Chalet School Reunion'' are anything to go by.
** The 'feminine' subjects appear to get more emphasis than traditionally more masculime subjects, such as maths and science. Girls are expected to be proficient in subjects such as cooking and sewing, so that they will make good wives (see above). Joey gets no end of flak from the Tirolean girls about her failure at sewing.
** There's a heavy emphasis on obedience and religion, especially Catholicism, and one girl shocks her peers by saying that she is an atheist.
** And then there's the racism - for instance, Joey's comment about her sons, who have been messing around with blacklead, looking like 'two little nigger boys' in ''Joey Goes to the Oberland''.
