May Baldwin (1862–1950)
Autore di A City Schoolgirl and Her Friends
Sull'Autore
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Opere di May Baldwin
Sibyl; or, Old School Friends 3 copie
Two Schoolgirls of Florence 2 copie
Miss Peter 2 copie
A Riotous Term at St. Norbert's 1 copia
The Tarletons in Brittany 1 copia
Jean and the Boys 1 copia
That Little Limb 1 copia
The Twins Make Good 1 copia
A Schoolgirl of the Blue 1 copia
The Girls' Eton 1 copia
Mrs. Manning's Wards 1 copia
Moll Meredyth, Madcap 1 copia
De Victoriaschool 1 copia
Teddy and Lily's Adventures 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Baldwin, May
- Data di nascita
- 1862-05-08
- Data di morte
- 1950-01-03
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Nazione (per mappa)
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Lucknow, India
- Luogo di residenza
- Lucknow, India
Germany (education)
Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England, UK
London, England, UK
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK - Istruzione
- Bishop Otter College
- Attività lavorative
- Children's Book Author
- Breve biografia
- Born in 1862, in India, where her father - the Rev. John Richard Baldwin - was a chaplain, May Baldwin was one of five children, and was sent to school in Germany. The family returned to England from 1869-1871, when Rev. Baldwin was on furlough, and permanently in 1879, when he took a living at Dewsbury. Baldwin trained to be a teacher at Bishop Otter College in Chichester, although it is unknown if she actually taught.
An accomplished linguist, and a prolific author of girls' school stories, Baldwin's work - according to Sue Sims' and Hilary Clare's The Encyclopedia of Girls' School Stories - is far less nationalistic than that of other early contributors to the genre, perhaps owing to her own international education, and frequent travel to see her many friends, worldwide.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 46
- Utenti
- 79
- Popolarità
- #226,897
- Voto
- 3.3
- Recensioni
- 11
- ISBN
- 16
The author of some forty-five books for young girls, May Baldwin began her career in 1901, with the publication of A Popular Girl: A Tale of School Life in Germany. She went on to write quite a few school stories, many of them set on the European continent, and featuring girls from various nations becoming friends. In many ways her work, although more religious than the slightly later (and more popular) Angela Brazil, was also more cosmopolitan, and she consistently argues against prejudice between different European and European-diaspora peoples. In The Girls of St Gabriel's; or, Life at a French School for instance, her heroine is a rather nastily nationalistic English girl who learns to tolerate and even appreciate the French. Here the prejudice addressed arises, not from national difference, but from colonial ones, as Irene is targeted because she comes from Australia, and has a pronounced accent. Although the accent is eventually reformed, the narrative consistently works to show that the prejudice against Irene because of her background is misplaced and wrongheaded.
A Riotous Term at St Norbert's was published in the latter half of Baldwin's career - her final book was The Tarletons in Brittany, published in 1931 - and it is tempting to read it as an example of the author's attempts to move with the times. Her earlier books are more religious in character, and don't really concern themselves with "being a sport," in the way this one does. It's fascinating to read, because Baldwin doesn't get it quite right, and her riotous schoolgirls read less like high-spirited "jolly hockey sticks" characters, and more like nasty bullies and spoiled brats. Charlie, in particular, is an unappealing character, although she is reformed at the end. Of course, this might very well be a reflection of the author's views on the changes abroad in girls' school stories, rather than an attempt to conform to those changes. In any case, it was an engaging read, like all of Baldwin's books that I have thus far read, and is one I would recommend to fans of the author, and of the genre.… (altro)