The School Queens
Tags
Summary
Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers studying the English juvenile school-story genre and narratives of female growth
- Casual readers who enjoy classic school stories and can accept old-fashioned English expression
- Teachers or resource users needing public-domain English juvenile literature texts
- Readers interested in British children's literature from the late nineteenth to early twentieth century
Not a good fit for
- Young adult readers who prefer modern pacing, strong suspense, and fast-moving plots
- English beginners who need a Chinese translation or sentence-by-sentence annotations
- Readers strongly averse to narratives with period moralizing
Reading tips
- First learn about the author's era and the background of the school-story genre, then enter the text; this makes the characters' behavior easier to understand.
- Read chapter by chapter, and briefly review the character relationships and advancing conflicts after each chapter to avoid confusion.
- Read it as a genre sample, paying attention to its moral-educational discourse and the ways female characters are shaped.
- For teaching or research, select representative chapters and compare them with other school stories to discuss changes in genre conventions.
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
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
- 13
- 14
- 15
- 16
- 17
- 18
- 19
- 20
- 21
- 22
- 23
- 24
- 25
- 26
- 27
- 28
- 29
- 30
- 31
- 32
- 33
- 34
- 35
- 36
- 37
- 38
- 39
- 40
- 41
- 42
- 43
- 44
- 45
- 46
- 47
- 48
FAQ
What age group is this book suitable for?
Will the lack of a Chinese translation affect reading?
What is the relationship between this book and the author's other school stories?
As a public-domain eBook, what should readers note?
Comments
Find this book
This site is an index: you start “Search all sources” in your browser, and the entries it lists all point to third-party sites; please judge their availability yourself.
About the author
L. T. Meade (1854–1914) was an author of English-language children's and young adult fiction active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Fifty-six of her works are held in this catalogue, suggesting a substantial and widely circulated output. Her representative works include school stories such as A World of Girls: The Story of a School, A Sweet Girl Graduate and Three Girls from School; a mystery-flavoured title, A Master of Mysteries; and stories set among city children, such as Scamp and I: A Story of City By-Ways and A London Baby: The Story of King Roy. Her writing generally centres on girls' growth, school life and family circumstances, with accessible plots that emphasise character and feeling while combining moral instruction with entertainment. Public information is limited, and details of her life, nationality and career cannot be reliably established; this entry describes only the themes and style suggested by the works held here.
