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says that Digby "may take some credit" for the revival of girls' schools stories in the twenty-first century. The
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before becoming a magazine journalist, and lived in Paris for a while. As a journalist, she wrote for
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This article is about the British children's author. For the Countess of Sunderland, see
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notes that Digby's style becomes "heavily teen mag" in her later books.
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This article about a children's author from the United Kingdom is a
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series, 1999 to 2001 – which publisher Hachette catalogues as
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series published between 1978 and 1994. The name is a
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Sims, Sue; Clare, Hilary (2020). Thomas, Tig (ed.).
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novels set in the fictional Cornish boarding school
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Anne Spencer, Countess of Sunderland (d. 1715)
Kingston upon Thames
Children's fiction
Trebizon
school stories
Trebizon
pen name
North London Collegiate School
School Friend
Girl
Oxfam
Oxford
school story
Trebizon
Enid Blyton
Naughtiest Girl
Fidra Books
Egmont Books
Dorset
East Sussex








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978-1-84745-257-3

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