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The Abbey School comprises – The Abbey Girls; The Girls of the Abbey School; The Abbey Girls Go Back to School (A02, A03, A11). The E. J. Oxenham Omnibus comprises – The Abbey Girls Win Through; The Abbey Girls at Home; The Abbey Girls Play Up (A17, A18, A19).
- Elsie Oxenham's Abbey Series
- Main Abbey Series
- Abbey Connectors
- The Author
- Themes in The Series
- Elsie Jeanette Oxenham Appreciation Society
- References
Girls of the Hamlet Club (1914) is set in Miss Macey's school in Wycombe and in the surrounding hamlets and villages. It tells how Cicely Hobart comes to Whiteleaf to be near her maternal grandparents. She has been living in a London suburb, but will now board with an old family servant, and go to school in Wycombe. She finds that the school is spl...
° = published as a Collins 'Fat Orange' † = published as a Collins 'Seagull' ‡ = published as a Collins 'Small Red Abbey' g = reprinted in paperback by Girls Gone By Publishers e = reprinted in paperback by The EJO Society
Oxenham wrote several other series which tie in with the main Abbey Series; these are known as Abbey Connectors. Characters first used in other titles or series are introduced into the Abbey Series – sometimes stretching the internal chronology. A particular example of this is the character Robin (Robertina) Brent. She first appears as a 12-year-ol...
Oxenham depicts herself in some books in the series as 'The Writing Person', mainly in The New Abbey Girls and The Abbey Girls Again – for more information about the author herself see the article Elsie J. Oxenham.
Several themes are particularly apparent throughout the series, reflecting Oxenham's own interests and beliefs.
One of the interests of collectors and EJO Society members is finding and visiting the original sites used by Oxenham in her books. As well as the Bucks/Oxon area and the village of Washford, Somerset where Cleeve Abbey is situated, several books are set in parts of Sussex, Wales, Lancashire, the English Lake Districtand Scotland. Naturally these a...
Books
1. Godfrey, Monica (2003). The World of Elsie Jeanette Oxenham and her Books. Girls Gone By Publishers [www.ggbp.co.uk]. ISBN 1-904417-15-9. 2. Thompson, Allison (1998). Lighting the Fire: Elsie J. Oxenham, The Abbey Girls, and the English Folk Dance Revival. Squirrel Hill Press [musicsleuth.com/sqpress/ltfhome.html]. ISBN 0-9666563-0-X. 3. Waring, Stella; Ray, Sheila (2006). Island to Abbey; Survival and Sanctuary in the books of Elsie J. Oxenham 1907 to 1959. Girls Gone By Publishers [www.g...
Web
1. The Elsie J. Oxenham Society/Abbey Chronicle 2. Australian Abbey Girls Site 3. Jess Nevins. Pulp Heroes of the Pre-War Years, A (Archived 2009-10-24).
by Elsie J. Oxenham. 3.97 · 58 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1959 · 5 editions. , 256 pages, colur frontispiece, SIGNED by Doris A…. Want to Read. Rate it: Girls of the Hamlet Club (The Abbey Girls, #1), The Abbey Girls (The Abbey Girls, #2), The Girls of the Abbey School (The Abbey Girls, #3), Schooldays a...
The Abbey School is a private selective day school for girls, in Reading, Berkshire, England. [3] [4] Overview. The Abbey School provides education for girls aged 3 to 18 years. The school is based in the centre of Reading, on Kendrick Road. The current Head is Will le Fleming.
Reading Abbey Girls' School, also known as Reading Ladies’ Boarding School, was an educational establishment in Reading, Berkshire open from at least 1755 until 1794. Many of its pupils went on to make a mark on English culture and society, particularly as writers.
3 de set. de 2022 · The Reading Abbey Girls’ School. This all-girls boarding school in England produced a generation of accomplished female writers in the eighteenth century. Part of a painting by Paul Sandby of Reading Abbey Gateway. via Wikimedia Commons. By: Emily Zarevich. September 3, 2022. 4 minutes.
