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. d 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.
