Autor: Elsie J. Oxenham

Joan Crofton had come to Boston to take a job at a prominent advertising agency. She loved her job – it was stimulating and exciting – but from the moment she had met Craig Lamont, the owner of the …

The book is an autobiographical account of the author’s early life and his family. He intended to write a second volume covering his ministerial career and his life as a novelist but he died not long …

The lattice window of the ancient inn opened with a jerk, and Cicely leaned out to sniff the sweet air joyously. Last night she had been too tired to notice her surroundings, but after eight hours of …

The crowning of the May Queen was in progress in the big school hall, and among the crowd of girls who hung over the balcony railing none was more interested than Jen. She was very much of a new girl …

‘I don’t see why they need choose such an out-of-the-way place to ramble to!’ grumbled a fair-haired girl, toiling along in the rear. ‘What’s the matter?’ and an elder girl turned to look back at the …

“It’s the Abbey you want.” The pleasant hotel-maid smiled down at the girl who had asked a question. She was interested in these visitors. Their luggage had strange overseas labels, and it was unders …

“Joan! It’s too marvellous for words! Do you really mean you’d have me?” Jen, just arrived at school for the summer term, pushed back her yellow plaits and gazed up at the May Queen with wondering ey …

Jen Robins sat up in bed with a jerk. “I’ll go and tell Joan now—this minute! It’s seven o’clock; she’s sure to be awake. Gosh! I am in a mess! I must have been pitching about in my sleep. I don’t re …

“What a good thing Jandy Mac didn’t come back while you were having measles!” Jen had seen the writing on the letter as she handed it to Joan. “It would have been jolly awkward, wouldn’t it?” Joan lo …

“Joy, the queerest thing!” Joan put down her mother’s breakfast tray and stood gazing at her cousin. Joy looked up from the letter she was reading. “What sort of thing? Come and have your brekker. Wh …

“Joy, come and look, ” Joan called softly. Joy’s Schubert Impromptu came to a sudden end and she rose from the piano. “Bother you, Joan! Why did you spoil it? I was miles away.” “I’m sorry. But you c …

“What’s the matter with Jenny-Wren?” Joy asked. “Nothing, so far as I know. She was all right ten minutes ago. Why, Joy?” “I saw her just now and she looked gloomy, to put it mildly. Here she comes, …

‘I’ve bad news for you, President!’ Joan Shirley walked into the big hall at Broadway End, where Cicely sat on the settle by the fire, awaiting her and gazing sombrely into the flames. ‘Oh?’ the Pres …

“I don’t like the look of that sky!” said Miss Deane, with a worried glance at the clouds creeping up. “We’re a long way from home. I wonder if we could find shelter in the village over there?” The t …

“I won’t! I won’t go! And if you ask her to have me, I’ll run away!” and scarlet with anger, her face working with distress, Maidlin rushed away into the abbey and hid herself in a corner. Ann Watson …

“You’ll come, won’t you, old thing?” “Of course she’ll come. We couldn’t go to the pictures without her. Six o’clock at the corner, all of you!” “I can’t manage it before half-past, ” and Biddy Devin …

The third book in the series picks up immediately from The Abbey Girls. Dick discovers the old church beneath the Abbey. Despite his attempts to keep his explorations secret, his rummaging enabl …

The third book in the series picks up immediately from ‘The Abbey Girls’, Dick, arguably the most annoying character in British school story literature, discovers the old church beneath the Abbey. De …

Mac Donald visits the Abbey for the first time, because it was once owned by the father of her Uncle Tony. She discovers she is fond of the Abbey, but even fonder of its current occupants Joan and Jo …

Secrets Of The Abbey brings back many old friends – Jandy Mac, Jen, Joy, and the others. The thrilling adventures here, are concerned with the mysterious figure of the long-dead Brother Ambrose, and …

A celebrated English girls’ school story writer, Elsie J. Oxenham’s real name was Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley. Born in 1880 in Southport, Lancashire, she was the daughter of writer William John Dunkerle …

Jen was a nice young character who was introduced because the original girls Joan and Joy had grown up and were not interesting to the schoolgirl readership. There must have been a great tradition of …

One of the most entertaining of the Abbey books. Rykie, a young relative of staid Joan’s, comes to live at the manor, shocking self-righteous Joy, Joan, and Jen. …

To read about the Abbey Girls is to long to join them at school – to meet the members of the Hamlet Club – to watch the flowery ceremony of crowning the Queen! It is all so charming and natural. A j …

A celebrated English girls’ school story writer, Elsie J. Oxenham’s real name was Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley. Born in 1880 in Southport, Lancashire, she was the daughter of writer William John Dunkerle …

A celebrated English girls’ school story writer, Elsie J. Oxenham’s real name was Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley. Born in 1880 in Southport, Lancashire, she was the daughter of writer William John Dunkerle …

A celebrated English girls’ school story writer, Elsie J. Oxenham’s real name was Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley. Born in 1880 in Southport, Lancashire, she was the daughter of writer William John Dunkerle …

Rosamund has a tough time in The Abbey Girls on Trial (1931). Her father, who lives in India, cuts off her allowance as he has decided at age 60 to marry Eleanor, a ‘beautiful girl’ of Rosamund’s own …

Joy, Jen, and Maidlin help orphaned Cecily find a niche at the Abbey through Campfire Girls. Das E-Book The Abbey Girls Play Up wird angeboten von Alien Ebooks und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kateg …

Betty Mc Lean, whom we met first in the Rocklands books, comes to visit Jen and is involved in a serious accident. Her life-and-death struggle and her long recovery provide the impetus for Joy’s heal …

Ann joins the Abbey family on false pretenses, Jen loses both her parents, and Joy loses her husband Andrew Marchwood in this book about the Abbey Girls grown up. Rosalind and Maidlin, still in Miss …

Jen’s coronation is swiftly followed by Joy’s wedding. But before she leaves, Joy arranges for Mary-Dorothy to come to the Hall as companion-secretary to look after her aunt and the two schoolgirls, …

By ‘town’ the author means, as women of her time did, London. Less well off people would have called the city the Big Smoke. In this book the young women Joan and Joy live in the country at a manor a …

A celebrated English girls’ school story writer, Elsie J. Oxenham’s real name was Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley. Born in 1880 in Southport, Lancashire, she was the daughter of writer William John Dunkerle …

Maidlin (Magdalena) and Rosamund join the school. Maidlin has difficulty adjusting to life in England, but Joy is almost like a mother to her, and Maidlin adores her. …

Jen meets the girls of Rocklands School, and they become interested in county dance — though a new girl, Rhoda, does tell Jen she’s been doing things wrong! (Which she learns in the aforementioned bo …

Cicely, Jen, Joan and Joy discover that their dancing is wrong as they took instructions out of a book. Das E-Book The Abbey Girls Go Back to School wird angeboten von Alien Ebooks und wurde mit folg …

Rhoda—a schoolgirl of seventeen—and her mother find themselves dispossessed by a distant cousin, and her fierce resentment centres around Rosamund, the girl whom this cousin is to marry, and upon who …

Maidlin becomes a torchbearer. A celebrated English girls’ school story writer, Elsie J. Oxenham’s real name was Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley. Born in 1880 in Southport, Lancashire, she was the daughter …

Madelyn goes on to become an opera singer. A celebrated English girls’ school story writer, Elsie J. Oxenham’s real name was Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley. Born in 1880 in Southport, Lancashire, she was t …

Jandy Mac returns to the Abbey and unexpectedly helps out. A celebrated English girls’ school story writer, Elsie J. Oxenham’s real name was Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley. Born in 1880 in Southport, Lanca …

A celebrated English girls’ school story writer, Elsie J. Oxenham’s real name was Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley. Born in 1880 in Southport, Lancashire, she was the daughter of writer William John Dunkerle …

A celebrated English girls’ school story writer, Elsie J. Oxenham’s real name was Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley. Born in 1880 in Southport, Lancashire, she was the daughter of writer William John Dunkerle …

Robin Brent (featured in The Girl Who Wouldn’t Make Friends and New Girls at Wood End by the same author) comes to stay at the Abbey when after her father is injured in a plane crash. She makes frien …

This book tells of Damaris’s accident, how she and Rachel come to live in the Abbey, and of the inspiration and making of the Damaris Garden. It is partly concurrent with Fiddler and ends with Joy’s …

Rachel and Damaris Ellerton are living in Gracedieu Abbey owned by Joan Raymond, Rachel as Abbey guide (Guardian) and Damaris as gardener, after Damaris’s former career as a ballet dancer had been cu …

Damaris, a former ballerina, has been gardening at the Abbey, with the stalwart help of Benedicta, while Rachel, Damaris’s elder sister is the Abbey Guardian, responsible for showing visitors around, …

When the May Queen elect blots her copybook Nanta, the current Queen (and Fiddler From the Abbey) has to pick up the pieces. However this gives Nanta the chance of romance and to play the violin solo …

Twins Elizabeth and Margaret are growing up to be a little spoiled and self centred. At school they are chosen as Queens of the hamlet club and they learn to be responsible and to think of others fir …

“Good-bye! Good luck to you! I hope they’ll be nice!” “If they aren’t, come straight to us in Devonshire!” Kitty called shrilly after the outgoing train. Ruth laughed and waved her hand again. “I’ll …

“That’s done it!” and Dick came gloomily out from beneath the car. “Oh, Dick, what’s wrong? Can’t we go on?” wailed Sheila from the back seat. Della leaned over the side. “What’s up, old chap? Is it …

The Colquhoun family continue in the second volume of the popular children’s series Das E-Book A Princess in Tatters wird angeboten von Alien Ebooks und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisiert: g …

The Colquhoun family continue in the third volume of the popular children’s series Das E-Book A Holiday Queen wird angeboten von Alien Ebooks und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisiert: girls;sc …

The Colquhoun family continue in the fourth volume of the popular children’s series Das E-Book Schoolgirls and Scouts wird angeboten von Alien Ebooks und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisiert: …

The Colquhoun family suffered a great loss when Mrs. Colquhoun died. Peggy, who was eighteen at the time, and the eldest daughter, returned from boarding school to play the role of mother. Shortly af …

The three girls in the corners of the railway carriage stopped talking, as the train drew up in Wycombe station, and a fourth girl got in and took the vacant corner. The first three had talked excite …