The Chalet School and the Lintons
Key Facts (Possible Spoilers)
Mademoiselle Lepattre is Headmistress
The School is in Briesau, on the banks of the Tiern See in the Austrian Tyrol
Series Characters Whereabouts:
Jo Bettany is Head Girl
Frieda Mensch is Second Prefect.
Robin Humphries' age is "ten or eleven" (which would conveniently tie up the
conflict between her age in CAMP and in EXPLOITS)
and she attends the Annexe.
Juliet Carrick is Head of the Annexe.
Grizel Cochrane is Juliet's assistant.
Peggy and Rix Bettany are about three and a half years old and at Die Rosen with Madge and Jem.
David Russell (Madame's son) is 2 years old.
Cornelia Flower, Evadne Lannis and Ilonka Barkocz are in Lower Fifth, while Margia Stevens and Elsie Carr are in Upper Fifth
Biddy O'Ryan is a junior in Le Petit Chalet.
Mrs Linton won't have Joyce told how ill she is and asks Gillian to protect her sister. The nurse travelling with them to the Sonnalpe puts Joyce straight and lets her know exactly what she thinks of her selfish attitude. Joyce also contrives to make herself unpopular with Joey when, on the first night they're there, she tactlessly questions Stacie about her accident and shuns the Robin.
After being brought to order by the Prefects for passing notes in class, Joyce plans to have a Midnight Feast. Very easily upset, she is violently sick as a result of eating sardines on slices of rich cake. Mary Shaw is also sick and Thekla has bad nightmares and wakens up her whole dormitory.
The Staff dress up at Mrs Jarley and her Waxworks for the Staff Evening and the whole show is very topical and really funny. Lower Fifth make apple pies for dessert and want to flavour them with cloves and cinnamon. Cornelia gets the wrong ingredient from the cupboard and gives half the girls garlic cloves instead.
Madge gives birth to a new daughter, much to Joey's surprise. She is 7 weeks premature but Madge still accuses Joey of being "unaccountably thick" when she had tried to hint to her. Jem organises a name party for the baby and gets some weird choices for names. Madge and Jem decide not to use any of the suggestions given and choose Sybil Margaret instead. We also find out that Cornelia has two middle names that she's so ashamed of, she's kept them a closely guarded secret.
The story is continued in A REBEL AT THE CHALET SCHOOL
contributed by Julie Robertson, Scotland __ working from a paperback edition