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Girls Gone By Publishers is a publishing company run by Clarissa Cridland and Ann Mackie-Hunter and is based in
Coleford, Somerset Coleford is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated on the Mells River in the Mendip Hills five miles west of Frome. The parish has a population of 2,313 in 2011. History Coleford was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as '' ...
. They re-publish new editions of some of the most popular girls' fiction titles from the twentieth century.


Elinor Brent-Dyer

Re-published titles by
Elinor Brent-Dyer Elinor M. Brent-Dyer (6 April 1894 – 20 September 1969) was an English writer of children's literature who wrote more than one hundred books during her lifetime, the most famous being the '' Chalet School'' series. Early life and education B ...
include: *''Two Sams at the Chalet School'' (2008) *''Trouble at Skelton Hall'' (2009) *''Three Go to the Chalet School'' (2007) *''Ruey Richardson - Chaletian'' (2009) *''The New House at the Chalet School'' (2008) *''The New Chalet School'' (2009) *''A Head Girl's Difficulties'' (2008) *''A Genius at the Chalet School'' (2007) *''The Feud in the Chalet School'' (2009) *''Excitements at the Chalet School'' (2007) *''The Coming of Age of the Chalet School'' (2008) *''The Chalet School in Exile'' (2009) *''The Chalet School Christmas Story Book'' (2007) *''The Chalet Girls' Cookbook'' (2009) *''Carola Storms the Chalet School'' (2008) *''Adrienne and the Chalet School'' (2009) Girls Gone By Publishers own the copyright of all works, unpublished and published by Elinor Brent Dyer.


Margaret Biggs

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Margaret Biggs Margaret Biggs (born 9 July 1929, Orpington, Kent) is a popular and collectible exponent of the girls' School story. She is best known for her Melling School series of books, first published by Blackie in the 1950s. The series is set at a weekly ...
include: *''The Blakes Come to Melling'' *''The New Prefect at Melling'' *''Last Term for Helen'' *''Head Girl of Melling'' (2005) *''The New Girl at Melling'' (2006) *''Summer Term at Melling'' (2007) *''Susan in the Sixth'' (2007) *''Kate at Melling'' (2008) *''Changes at Melling'' (2009)


Angela Brazil

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Angela Brazil Angela Brazil (pronounced "brazzle") (30 November 186813 March 1947) was one of the first British writers of "modern schoolgirls' stories", written from the characters' point of view and intended primarily as entertainment rather than moral ins ...
include: *''A Fourth Form Friendship'' (2006)


Dorita Fairlie Bruce

The following list of republished titles written by Dorita Fairlie Bruce is based on a search on the
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Library Hub Discover database. All of the republished works are paperbacks. *''The best bat in the school and other stories'' (2004) *''Nancy returns to St. Bride's'' (2005) *''The school on the moor'' (2006) *''The school in the woods'' (2007) *''Toby at Tibbs Cross'' (2008) *''The serendipity shop'' (2009) *''Triffeny'' (2010) *''The debatable mound'' (2011) *''Dimsie and the Jane Willard Foundation'' (2011) *''The bartle bequest'' (2012) *''Wild goose quest'' (2013)


Monica Edwards

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Monica Edwards Monica Edwards (née Monica le Doux Newton; 8 November 1912 – 18 January 1998) was an English children's writer of the mid-twentieth century best known for her Romney Marsh and Punchbowl Farm series of children's novels. Early life She was ...
include: *'' Hidden in a Dream'' (2006) *'' Storm Ahead'' (2005) *''
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'' (2005) *'' The Nightbird'' (2006) *'' Operation Seabird'' (2007) *'' Strangers to the Marsh'' (2007) *'' No Going Back'' (2008) *'' The Hoodwinkers'' (2008) *'' Dolphin Summer'' (2009) *'' A Wind Is Blowing'' (2009) *''
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'' (2010) (Girls Gone By Publishers are planning to re-publish the entire output of Monica Edwards).


Josephine Elder

Re-published titles by
Josephine Elder Josephine Elder was the pen name of Olive Gwendoline Potter (5 December 1895 – 24 July 1988), an English writer of children's literature who published ten school stories between 1924 and 1940 as well as numerous short stories for annuals. Sh ...
include: *''Evelyn Finds Herself'' (2006)


Antonia Forest

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Antonia Forest Antonia Forest (26 May 1915 – 28 November 2003) was the pseudonym of Patricia Giulia Caulfield Kate Rubinstein, an English writer of children's novels. She is known for the Marlow series. Life Forest was born to part Russian-Jewish and Iri ...
include: *''Celebrating Antonia Forest'' (2008) *''The Thursday Kidnapping'' (2009)


Lorna Hill

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Lorna Hill Lorna Hill (born Lorna Leatham, 21 February 1902 in Durham, England, died 17 August 1991 in Keswick, Cumbria), was an English author of over 40 books for children. These remained popular into the 21st century. Life and works Lorna, the daugh ...
include: *''Border Peel '' (2007) *''The Vicarage Children'' (2008) *''Northern Lights'' (2009) *''More About Mandy'' (2009)


Clare Mallory

Re-published titles by Clare Mallory include *''The New House at Winwood '' (2008) *''The League of the Smallest'' (2009)


Violet Needham

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Violet Needham Amy Violet Needham (5 June 1876, Mayfair – 8 June 1967, London), was the author of 19 popular novels for children, a number of which, during the 1940s, were made widely available to the British public by BBC's The Children's Hour radio programm ...
include: *''The House of the Paladin '' (2006) *''Pandora of Parrham Royal'' (2009) *''The Red Rose of Ruvina'' (2009) *''The Secret of the White Peacock'' (2008)


Elsie Jeanette Oxenham

Re-published titles by Elsie Jeanette Oxenham include: *''Goblin Island'' (2007) *''Jen of the Abbey School'' (2007) *''Maidlin Bears the Torch'' (2009) *''The New Abbey Girls'' (2008)


Malcolm Saville

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Malcolm Saville Leonard Malcolm Saville (21 February 1901–30 June 1982)
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was an English writer best known for the ...
include: *''The Elusive Grasshopper'' (2008) *''The Gay Dolphin Adventure'' (2007) *''Lone Pine Five'' (2008) *''The Neglected Mountain'' (2009) *''Saucers Over the Moor'' (2009) *''The Secret of Grey Walls'' (2007)


Geoffrey Trease

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Geoffrey Trease (Robert) Geoffrey Trease FRSL (11 August 1909 – 27 January 1998) was a prolific British writer who published 113 books, mainly for children, between 1934 and 1997, starting with '' Bows Against the Barons'' and ending with ''Cloak for a Spy'' ...
include: *''A Whiff of Burnt Boats'' (2009)


Non fiction

Girls Gone By Publishers also publish non-fiction titles based on the work of their re-published authors, such as
Antonia Forest Antonia Forest (26 May 1915 – 28 November 2003) was the pseudonym of Patricia Giulia Caulfield Kate Rubinstein, an English writer of children's novels. She is known for the Marlow series. Life Forest was born to part Russian-Jewish and Iri ...
, Elsie Jeanette Oxenham,
Monica Edwards Monica Edwards (née Monica le Doux Newton; 8 November 1912 – 18 January 1998) was an English children's writer of the mid-twentieth century best known for her Romney Marsh and Punchbowl Farm series of children's novels. Early life She was ...
and
Geoffrey Trease (Robert) Geoffrey Trease FRSL (11 August 1909 – 27 January 1998) was a prolific British writer who published 113 books, mainly for children, between 1934 and 1997, starting with '' Bows Against the Barons'' and ending with ''Cloak for a Spy'' ...
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The Girls Gone By Publishers website.
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