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98:, published in 1749, is generally seen as the first boarding school story. Fielding's novel was a moralistic tale with tangents offering instruction on behavior, and each of the nine girls in the novel relates her story individually. However, it did establish aspects of the boarding school story which were repeated in later works. The school is self-contained with little connection to local life, the girls are encouraged to live together with a sense of community and collective responsibility. Fielding's approach was imitated and used as a formula by both her contemporaries and other writers into the 19th century. 27: 224:, who also wrote historical novels and was a magazine editor, become the most popular writer of girls' school stories in the final decade of the nineteenth century. Her stories focused on upper class pupils at boarding schools who learned to earn trust by making mistakes. They had little focus on sports and were primarily interested in friendships and loyalty. They remained largely rooted in Victorian values and preparing girls to be proper wives and mothers. 526: 376:(Jean-François Paschal Grousset), set in a boarding-school context similar to Talbot Baines Reed's St. Dominic's in England and Arthur Stanwood Pier's St. Timothy's in America, would have a considerable influence on French stories in the genre. German school stories tended to be written for adults, in the tradition of the earlier 285:, and a widowed mother. Trease was inspired to set the series in a day school following a letter from a young reader complaining that, despite being the setting for many school stories, boarding schools were in fact no more exciting environments than day schools. This is something remarked upon by the narrator. 380:, and explored the disruption the school environment made to a character's sense of individuality. Soviet stories tended to focus on how individualistic behaviour could be corrected and brought into line with collective goals by the school environment. Other notable examples of school stories include Japanese 432:
Bullies often feature in school stories, particularly boys' school stories. Identical twins appear with some frequency and are often the subject of comedy. School principals are usually even handed and wise and provide guidance to characters and will often bend the rules to get them out of trouble.
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The vast majority of school stories involve the culture of boarding schools in general. Common themes include honour, decency, sportsmanship and loyalty. Competitive team sports often feature and an annual sports event between rival school houses is frequently a part of the plot. Friendships between
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After World War II boarding school stories waned in popularity. Coeducational schools for all British schoolchildren were being funded by the public purse; critics, librarians and educational specialists became interested in creating a more modern curriculum and tended to see stories of this type as
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The popularity of the traditional school story declined after the Second World War, but school stories have remained popular in other forms, with a focus on state run coeducational schools, and themes involving more modern concerns such as racial issues, family life, sexuality and drugs (see
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School stories were a somewhat late arrival as a popular literature. Children as a market were generally not targeted until well into the nineteenth century. There was concern about the moral effect of novels on young minds, and those that were published tended to lean towards giving moral
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outdated and irrelevant. School stories have remained popular, however, with a focus shifting towards state-funded day schools with both girls and boys, and dealing with more contemporary issues such as sexuality, racism, drugs and family difficulties. The
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Most literature for girls at the turn of the twentieth century focused on the value of self-sacrifice, moral virtues, dignity and aspiring to finding a proper position in societal order. This was to a large extent changed by the publication of
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is a fiction genre centring on older pre-adolescent and adolescent school life, at its most popular in the first half of the twentieth century. While examples do exist in other countries, it is most commonly set in English
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However, the core school story theme of the school as a sort of character in itself, actively formed by the pupils and their enjoyment of being there, is primarily a British and American phenomenon. In France,
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by Thomas Hughes appeared. It is perhaps the most famous of all such tales, and its popularity helped firmly establish the genre, which rapidly expanded in the decades to follow across thousands of novels.
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typical until the 1950s. It focuses largely on friendship, honour and loyalty between pupils. Plots involving sports events, bullies, secrets, rivalry and bravery are often used to shape the school story.
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As schools were segregated by gender in the nineteenth century, school stories naturally formed two separate but related genres of girls' school stories and boys' school stories.
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series was unusually set in a progressive coeducational school. J. K. Rowlings' Harry Potter series represents a more recent example of a mixed-sex boarding school.
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is a novel dealing with boarding school education; it is much more sensitive to the misery and sexuality of all-male boarding, disqualifying itself from the genre.
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pupils are a common focus and also relationships with particular teachers, and the difficulty of new pupils fitting into the school culture is a central theme.
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The peak period for school stories was between the 1880s and the end of the Second World War. Comics featuring school stories also became popular in the 1930s.
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had school story elements, which generated considerable public interest and close to 100 school stories had been published between 1749 and 1857, the year that
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showed a leaning away from the school story as instructional moral literature for children, with a greater focus on the pupils and a defined plot.
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wrote a number of school stories in the 1880s, and contributed considerably to shaping the genre, taking inspiration from
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There had been an increase in female schooling from the 1850s, augmented by the 1870 Education Act.
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series of novels has in some respects revived the genre, despite having a strong leaning towards
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Boys' magazines also began to be published which featured school stories, the best known being
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including the action being described almost exclusively from the point of view of pupils.
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Twentieth-century boys' school stories were often comical in nature – examples being the
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set in a boarding school. Its Victorian tone was never adopted as generic convention.
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series, which uses many plot motifs commonly found in the traditional school story.
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is set as much out of school as in it, many of her other titles are set in schools
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Earlier in the development of the genre, school stories avoided dealing with
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focused on university life. However, more school stories followed such as
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The ivory tower and Harry Potter: perspectives on a literary phenomenon
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Briggs, Julia; Butts, Dennis; Grenby, M.O.; Anderson, Brian (2008).
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Coeducation remained rare in boarding school stories. Enid Blyton's
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What Katy read: feminist re-readings of "classic" stories for girls
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What Katy read: feminist re-readings of "classic" stories for girls
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and mostly written in girls' and boys' subgenres, reflecting the
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Joyce, Bakhtin, and Popular Literature: Chronicles of Disorder
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between 1906 and 1940, his most famous character being
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conventions. Elements of the school story prominent in
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Hughes never wrote another school story: the sequel
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Index

The School Story

rugby football
Tom Brown's School Days
boarding schools
single-sex education
Grange Hill
Harry Potter
The Governess, or The Little Female Academy
Sarah Fielding
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
Dombey and Son
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
Tom Brown's School Days
Tom Brown at Oxford
F.W. Farrar
Eric, or, Little by Little
Boy's Own Paper
Talbot Baines Reed
Thomas Hughes
The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's
L. T. Meade
Angela Brazil
Billy Bunter
Jennings
Naughtiest Girl
Geoffrey Trease
No Boats on Bannermere

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