Description

Collins 1960
8vo, red boards with black titling to spine, very very slight wear to edges of d/w o/w VG++/VG++ 290 gms
(Order reference 14699).

THE ABBEY SCHOOL SERIES
In the girls of the Abbey School, Elsie J. Oxenham has created a set of characters whose adventures have been followed keenly by more than one generation of schoolgirls. As Miss Oxenham’s first enthusiastic readers have themselves grown up and passed on their treasured favourites to their young daughters, the Abbey Girls have grown out of girlhood, and now have daughters of their own who carry on the Abbey School traditions with the same enthusiasm. So readers of two generations find increasing pleasure in this happy circle of good friends—each generation cherishing a special regard for its own contemporaries.

This Elsie Oxenham Abbey School book fills a gap in the popular series and takes us back to a time when Jenny-Wren was still a schoolgirl. Joan has a  surprise one day when she learns that she has a young cousin of whom she had never heard, and Joy shares her surprise when she learns that the new cousin proposes to come and live with them. Since it is obvious that the youngster must be taken under someone's wing when there are such problems as school to be faced, of course the choice is Jen. And a real problem the new cousin turns out to be to Joy, Joan and Jen!

Girls are familiar with this grand series of books and enthusiastically follow the careers of the Abbey girls who have become for them more than just characters in a book. They will certainly not be disappointed in this new story.