![]() ![]() Clare’s, this time with a pair of twins as the main protagonists. The success of the Malory Towers series prompted Blyton to create another fictional boarding school – St. ![]() ![]() Yes the girls were another bunch of stereotypes, but they really did teach the values of friendship, sharing, helping others and having goals that benefited society, not just the individual. ![]() I thought that boarding schools really were a place where sisterhoods were forged and the girls went on great adventures, excelled at team sports overcoming all close competitors and had plenty of spiffing midnight feasts (we were so much more naive than today’s teens). Malory Towers is a fictional boarding school in Cornwall and the heroine of the 6 stories is Darrell Rivers. I fell into the world created by Enid Blyton at Malory Towers. Alcott’s Little Women, heroines from TV series like Carrie’s War, Black Beauty and the like, and the images portrayed by Barbie, Sindy and Tressie dolls. Our role models were Susan Coolidge’s Katy, Louisa M. We had absolutely nothing like The Hunger Games, the Twilight Series or anything that helped teens navigate the path of life. I know it’s probably very hard for you to imagine but when I was a teenager, young adult fiction was extremely limited. ![]()
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