"St. Trinian's, the gloriously anarchic boarding school for young ladies, became synonymous with outrageous behavior soon after Ronald Searle's drawings first appeared in Britain's Lilliput magazine in the 1940s. Searle said about his creations: "A St. Trinian's girl would be sadistic, cunning, dissolute, crooked, sordid, lacking morals of any sort and capable of any excess. She would also be well-spoken, even well-mannered and polite. Sardonic, witty and very amusing. She would be good company. In short: typically human and, despite everything, endearing."" "St. Ionian's girls are experts in the maidenly arts of torture, witchcraft, and mayhem of all description; their antics take the reader back to those authoritarian school days that begged for serious rebellion and all-embracing non-conformity Poisonous mushrooms, medieval racks, and field hockey sticks as weapons of choice figure prominently. Gin-swigging and cigar-smoking are popular pastimes." "Now, black humor and black stockings intact, the St. Trinian's girls reach American shores in all their wicked glory in this new volume, which for the first time ever presents all of the St. Trinian's cartoons."--BOOK JACKET.