Great Days and Jolly Days

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With delightful humour. a light and affectionate touch, and an unerring -- and unmarkish -- sense of pathos and nostalgia (for many of the schools she mentions, as well as their songs, have disappeared, and others are threatened), Celia Haddon recaptures the world of girl's education over a hundred years and more .... in english boarding schools.