Clare H. Abrahall (1900–1990)
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- Kanonisk navn
- Abrahall, Clare H.
- Juridisk navn
- Hoskyns-Abrahall, Clare Constance Maria Drury
- Andre navne
- Drury, Clare Constance Maria (maiden name)
Drury, C. M. (published name)
Abrahall, Clare H. (published name)
Abrahall, C. H. (published name) - Fødselsdato
- 1900-01-31
- Dødsdag
- 1990-11-29
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Land (til kort)
- UK
- Fødested
- London, England, UK
- Dødssted
- St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, UK
- Uddannelse
- St. Helen's School, Abingdon
Royal College of Music - Erhverv
- Children's Book Author
- Kort biografi
- Clare Constance Maria Drury was born in London, the daughter of Lt.Col. Richard Drury of Brock House, Dawlish in Devon. She was educated at St. Helen's School, Abingdon, and at the Royal College of Music. She was married in 1925 to Theo Chandos Hoskyns-Abrahall, and had two children. She was divorced from Hoskyns-Abrahall in 1944, and died in 1990.
She wrote a number of children's books, in a variety of genres, including the girls' school story, the historical novel, and the biography. She published as Clare H. Abrahall, Clare Hoskyns Abrahall, and C.M. Drury. (source: The Girls' School Story Encyclopedia)
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The friendship is cemented when Vanessa invites Chris to accompany her to Brazil during the Easter holidays, and the girls foil a smugglers' ring in the course of their trip. But it is only during the tennis championships at the end of the year, in which Chris and her friend Diana seem likely to be triumphant, only to have injury threaten their success, that Vanessa's full talents (and her full story) are revealed. Naturally, all ends happily for both Chris and Vanessa, as the latter finds healing from her 'secret trauma,' and truly comes into her own at Hinton's, while the former, having won a £1800 reward for foiling the smugglers, that will pay for art school, ends her year in triumph: Crighton House is dominant in hockey, swimming and tennis, and wins the house shield, and Chris herself, formerly a prefect, discovers that she will be head girl in her final year.
Although quite a bit happens in the course of Chris at Crighton's - in addition to the events listed above, there are also a number of subplots involving the junior students, who, initially resenting Vanessa for winning a part in The Miracle Worker, play a trick on her involving the school ghost, Matilda; and who, later in the story, befriend lonely old Mr. Humphrey de Gore, the wealthy village hermit, who hasn't come out of his house in years - I found it rather boring. There is a wealth of incident in it, almost as if the author wanted to include all the major school story elements - the new girl who makes good, the house rivalries, the importance of sport, the school ghost, the unlikely holiday-time adventure involving thieves/smugglers/spies - but very little in-depth development of that incident, or of the characters. I just couldn't work up much enthusiasm for either, and thought the narrative ran along at a very superficial, surface level. That said, I'm glad to have tracked down a copy to read - there are no copies for sale online, and according to WorldCat, Trinity is one of only five libraries to possess a copy - given my interest in the girls' school story genre. The author, who also published under the name C.M. Drury - her full name was Clare Constance Maria Drury - has written a second school story, Kit Norris, Schoolgirl Pilot, which I might try to track down as well.… (mere)