When was Elinor Brent-Dyer born?
6 April 1894 in South Shields, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Did Elinor Brent-Dyer go to a school like the Chalet School?
Far from it - she was a day girl at private schools in South Shields. However, she became a teacher and set up the Margaret Roper School in Hereford between 1938 and 1948.
She tried to run it along the same lines as the Chalet School with a brown and flame uniform, Christmas play and religious tolerance with emphasis on Catholic and Church of England. She was better at writing than at being a headmistress, though, and in 1948 closed the school to concentrate on her writing. Between 1938 and 1948 she had 14 books published while between 1948 and 1958 were 38 published.
Was Elinor Brent-Dyer's family like the Maynards?
She only had one younger brother, Henzell, and he died when he was 17. Her father had left the family home when she was a toddler. Her mother, Nelly, did remarry in 1925. Elinor Brent-Dyer moved in with them in 1926 and moved with them to Hereford. After her step-father's death in 1937, EBD continued to live with her mother and various lodgers, until her mother died in 1957.
In 1964 Elinor Brent-Dyer bought a house with Phyllis Matthewman, whot she had known since childhood, and Phyllis' husband Sydney in Redhill, Surrey where she lived until her death.
When did she die?
20 September 1969 in Redhill, Surrey
Did Elinor Brent-Dyer go to a school like the Chalet School?
She tried to run it along the same lines as the Chalet School with a brown and flame uniform, Christmas play and religious tolerance with emphasis on Catholic and Church of England. She was better at writing than at being a headmistress, though, and in 1948 closed the school to concentrate on her writing. Between 1938 and 1948 she had 14 books published while between 1948 and 1958 were 38 published.
Was Elinor Brent-Dyer's family like the Maynards?
In 1964 Elinor Brent-Dyer bought a house with Phyllis Matthewman, whot she had known since childhood, and Phyllis' husband Sydney in Redhill, Surrey where she lived until her death.
When did she die?
Go to the short biography for more information about Elinor Brent-Dyer, written for the site by Helen McClelland.
Questions adapted from THE CHALET SCHOOL COMPANION, Helen McClelland, HarperCollins, 1994