Girls Gone By Publishers
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Girls Gone By Publishers is a publishing company run by Clarissa Cridland and Ann Mackie-Hunter and is based in Bath, Somerset. 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 Brent-Dyer
Elinor M. Brent-Dyer was a children’s author who wrote over 100 books during her lifetime, the most famous being the Chalet School series.-Short Biography :...

 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Girls Gone By Publishers own the copyright of all works, unpublished and published by Elinor Brent Dyer.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

Re-published titles by Margaret Biggs
Margaret Biggs
Margaret Biggs 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 boarding school and is unusual in that it shows boarding school life and home life side...

 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

Re-published titles by Angela Brazil
Angela Brazil
Angela Brazil 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 instruction. In the first half of the twentieth century she published nearly 50 books of girls' fiction, the...

 include:
  • A Fourth Form Friendship (2006)

Dorita Fairlie Bruce

Re-published titles by Dorita Fairlie Bruce
Dorita Fairlie Bruce
Dorita Fairlie Bruce was a British children's author, most notably of the Dimsie books published between 1921 and 1941. Her books were second in popularity only to Angela Brazil's during the 1920s and '30s....

 include:
  • The School on the Moor (2006)
  • The School in the Woods (2007)
  • Toby at Tibbs Cross (2008)
  • The Serendipity Shop (2009)

Monica Edwards

Re-published titles by Monica Edwards
Monica Edwards
Monica Edwards 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:...

 include:
  • Hidden in a Dream
    Hidden in a Dream
    Hidden in a Dream is the sixth book in the Romney Marsh series of novels by Monica Edwards, published in 1952 by Collins. After suffering concussion when swimming on his own near Winklesea beach, Meryon is haunted by disturbing dreams...

    (2006)
  • Storm Ahead
    Storm Ahead
    Storm Ahead is the seventh book in the Romney Marsh series of novels by Monica Edwards, published in 1953 by Collins. Lindsey Thornton, from Punchbowl Farm in Surrey, comes to stay at Westling with the Grey family. Almost immediately she is caught up in the worst gale the area has seen for many,...

    (2005)
  • No Entry
    No Entry (novel)
    No Entry is the eighth book in the Romney Marsh series of novels by Monica Edwards, published in 1954 by Collins. When several farms in the area contract foot-and-mouth disease and have to slaughter their herds, the Merrows at Castle Farm are determined to isolate the farm from all visitors so that...

    (2005)
  • The Nightbird
    The Nightbird (novel)
    The Nightbird is the ninth book in the Romney Marsh series of novels by Monica Edwards, published in 1955 by Collins. Like The White Riders, this is another ‘haunting’ story in which the children attempt to scare off unwelcome intruders. This time it is the French fishing fleet who are poaching in...

    (2006)
  • Operation Seabird
    Operation Seabird
    Operation Seabird is the tenth book in the Romney Marsh series of novels by Monica Edwards, published in 1957 by Collins. Tamzin and Rissa discover to their horror that many seabirds in the area are being killed by oil pollution...

    (2007)
  • Strangers to the Marsh
    Strangers to the Marsh
    Strangers to the Marsh is the eleventh book in the Romney Marsh series of novels by Monica Edwards, published in 1957 by Collins. When Jim Decks has to pay for some valuable cakes which he destroyed in an accident, Tamzin and her friends come to his rescue. They attempt to raise funds by starting a...

    (2007)
  • No Going Back
    No Going Back (novel)
    No Going Back is the twelfth book in the Romney Marsh series of novels by Monica Edwards, published in 1960 by Collins.-Blurb from First Edition:...

    (2008)
  • The Hoodwinkers
    The Hoodwinkers
    The Hoodwinkers is the thirteenth book in the Romney Marsh series of novels by Monica Edwards, published in 1962 by Collins.The four children discover that Jim Decks has been hoodwinking innocent American...

    (2008)
  • Dolphin Summer
    Dolphin Summer
    Dolphin Summer is the fourteenth book in the Romney Marsh series of novels by Monica Edwards, published in 1963 by Collins. Once again Tamzin finds an animal in need of rescue. This time it is a dolphin which appears in Dunsford Bay one hot summer. Tamzin conspires with the other children and Jim...

    (2009)
  • A Wind Is Blowing
    A Wind Is Blowing
    A Wind is Blowing is the fifteenth and final book in the Romney Marsh series of novels by Monica Edwards, published in 1969 by Collins. This final book in the series features only Tamzin and Meryon of the usual four children; Rissa and Roger are staying at Punchbowl Farm in Surrey. When Meryon ‘has...

    (2009)
  • The Wild One
    The Wild One (novel)
    The Wild One is the tenth and final book in the Punchbowl Farm series of novels by Monica Edwards, published in 1967 by Collins. The book was the last Monica Edwards book to be illustrated by Geoffrey Whittam...

    (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
Josephine Elder was the penname of Olive Gwendoline Potter , an English children's author who published ten school stories between 1924 and 1940 as well as numerous short stories for annuals. She is widely regarded as one of the best writers of the girls' school story. Her most acclaimed book is...

 include:
  • Evelyn Finds Herself (2006)

Antonia Forest

Re-published titles by Antonia Forest
Antonia Forest
Antonia Forest was the pseudonym of a British children's author who was christened Patricia Giulia Caulfield Kate Rubinstein...

 include:
  • Celebrating Antonia Forest (2008)
  • The Thursday Kidnapping (2009)

Lorna Hill

Re-published titles by Lorna Hill
Lorna Hill
Lorna Hill , was a British author of over 40 books for children.-Life and works:...

 include:
  • Border Peel (2007)
  • The Vicarage Children (2008)
  • Northern Lights (2009)
  • More About Mandy (2009)

Clare Mallory

Re-published titles by Clare Mallory
Clare Mallory
Clare Mallory is the penname under which Winifred Constance McQuilkan Hall wrote ten children's books published between 1947 and 1951....

 include
  • The New House at Winwood (2008)
  • The League of the Smallest (2009)

Violet Needham

Re-published titles by Violet Needham
Violet Needham
Violet Needham was the author of 19 popular children's books.She came to writing late in life, publishing her first book, The Black Riders, in 1939, at the age of 63. She was born in England to a privileged but chaotic family. Her father was a gambler and their finances fluctuated considerably...

 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

Re-published titles by Malcolm Saville
Malcolm Saville
Leonard Malcolm Saville was an English author born in Hastings, Sussex. He is best known for the Lone Pine series of children's books, many of which are set in Shropshire. His work places emphasis on place, with the books including many vivid descriptions of English countryside, villages and...

 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

Re-published titles by Geoffrey Trease
Geoffrey Trease
Geoffrey Trease was a prolific writer, publishing 113 books between 1934 and 1997 . His work has been translated into 20 languages...

 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
Antonia Forest was the pseudonym of a British children's author who was christened Patricia Giulia Caulfield Kate Rubinstein...

, Elsie Jeanette Oxenham, Monica Edwards
Monica Edwards
Monica Edwards 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:...

 and Geoffrey Trease
Geoffrey Trease
Geoffrey Trease was a prolific writer, publishing 113 books between 1934 and 1997 . His work has been translated into 20 languages...

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