May Baldwin
May Baldwin (8 May 1862 in Lucknow, India – 1950) was a British girls' school story book author.[1]
An international traveller, Baldwin's work was far less nationalistic than that of her contemporaries.[2]
Early life
[edit]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 and later returned permanently in 1879, when Rev. Baldwin took a living at Dewsbury. May Baldwin trained to be a teacher at Bishop Otter College.[2]
Career
[edit]Her works include:
- A Popular Girl: A Tale of School Life in Germany (1901)[3]
- A Plucky Girl; or, The Adventures of 'Miss Nell' (1902)
- Sibyl; or, Old School Friends (1903)
- The Sunset Rock: A Story for Girls (1903)[4]
- That Awful Little Brother (1904)
- The Girls of St. Gabriel's; or, Life at a French School (1905)
- Peg's Adventures in Paris (1906)[5]
- Dora: A High School Girl (1906)
- The Follies of Fifi (1907)
- Mysie: A Highland Lassie (1907)
- Holly House and Ridges Row: A Tale of London Old and New (1908)[6][7]
- Golden Square High School (1908)
- Barbara Bellamy: A Public School Girl (1909)[8]
- Sarah's School Friend (1910)[9][10]
- Two Schoolgirls of Florence (1910)
- A Schoolgirl of Moscow (1911)
- The Girls' Eton (1911)
- A City Schoolgirl and Her Friends (1912)[11]
- Corah's School Chums (1912)
- Hilda's Experiences (1913)
- A Schoolgirl's Diary: The Story of Her Holiday Beyond the Seas (1914)
- Phyllis McPhilemy: A School Story (1915)
- Mrs. Manning's Wards (1916)
- Irene to the Rescue: The Story of an English Girl's Fight for the Right (1917)[12]
- Miss Peter (1917)
- Three Pickles in and out of School (1921)
- A Schoolgirl of the Blue (1923)
- The Twins Make Good (1928)
References
[edit]- ↑ "Books by May Baldwin (Author of A City Schoolgirl and Her Friends)". good reads.
- 1 2 Sims, Susan; Clare, Hilary (29 November 2017). The Encyclopaedia of Girls' School Stories. Taylor & Francis Group. ISBN 978-0-8153-8227-0.
- ↑ Baldwin, May (October 31, 1901). "A Popular Girl: A school story by May Baldwin". W. & R. Chambers – via Google Books.
- ↑ Baldwin, May (October 31, 1904). "The Sunset Rock: A Story for Girls". E.P. Dutton & Company – via Google Books.
- ↑ Baldwin, May (October 31, 1906). "Peg's Adventures in Paris: A School Tale". E.P. Dutton – via Google Books.
- ↑ Baldwin, May (October 31, 1908). "Holly House and Ridges Row: a Tale of London Old and New, Etc". London & Edinburgh – via Google Books.
- ↑ "School Stories". Truth. London. 1908-11-25. p. 1272. Retrieved 31 October 2023.
- ↑ Baldwin, May (October 31, 1909). "Barbara Bellamy, a Public School Girl". W. & R. Chambers – via Google Books.
- ↑ Baldwin, May (December 9, 2006). Sarah's School Friend – via Project Gutenberg.
- ↑ "Advertisement". Lippincott's Monthly Magazine: A Popular Journal of General Literature, Science and Politics. J.B. Lippincott and Company. December 1910. p. 42. Retrieved 31 October 2023.
- ↑ Baldwin, May; Overnell, T. J. (January 2, 2010). A City Schoolgirl and Her Friends – via Project Gutenberg.
- ↑ Baldwin, May (October 31, 1917). "Irene to the Rescue: The Story of an English Girl's Fight for the Right". E.P. Dutton & Company – via Google Books.