A Fortunate Term
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Young readers who enjoy school settings and girls' coming-of-age stories
- English learners who want practice and prefer light narrative
- Researchers interested in the history of children's literature and boarding-school fiction
- Readers who like free public-domain eBooks and want a glimpse of school life in an earlier era
Not a good fit for
- Readers who prefer fast-paced modern plots and strong suspense
- Beginners in English who find it hard to sustain reading of long English texts
- Readers sensitive to early twentieth-century values and modes of expression
Reading tips
- Start by getting a sense of the boarding-school setting, then move into the characters' relationships; the reading will flow more easily.
- Read the chapters as separate small stories, one or two a day, to keep a steady pace.
- Make notes when you meet strongly period-specific attitudes, and look back after finishing to see how your judgement has changed.
- If using the book for English study, note common expressions in school-life scenes and retell them.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
Contents
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About the author
Angela Brazil (1869–1947) was a British children's author and is regarded as one of the pioneers of the modern girls' boarding-school story. She published her first work in 1904 and went on to publish nearly fifty schoolgirl novels over her lifetime; twenty-seven of her works are held in this collection, including A Fourth Form Friendship, The Fortunes of Philippa, Bosom Friends, A Pair of Schoolgirls, For the Sake of the School, A Fortunate Term, The Nicest Girl in the School and A Patriotic Schoolgirl. Her stories are mostly set in girls' boarding schools and centre on friendship, rivalry, communal life and growing up among classmates. Her brisk, lively style and attention to her heroines' personalities and everyday school life made her popular with young readers until the mid-twentieth century. Public information on her early education and private life is limited, and her literary contribution lies chiefly in opening up the school-story genre and in her sustained output. She died in Coventry in 1947.
