Elinor M. Brent-Dyer was born Gladys Eleanor May Dyer on April 6, 1894 in South Shields, in the northeast of England. She wrote over a hundred books of children’s literature during her life. From lower middle-class roots, she went to a small private school and became a teacher after attending the City of Leeds Training College. As a teacher, she worked at both public and private schools, and even as a governess. She had an interest in the theater, and her first book Gerry Goes to School (the first in her La Rochelle series) was written in 1922 --for the child actress Hazel Bainbridge. About this time, inspired by a vacation to the Austrian Alps, she wrote The School at the Chalet in 1923 (the first in her Chalet School series). Brent-Dyer continued to teach and tried rather unsuccessfully to run her own school from 1938 to 1948. After this, she quit teaching but continued writing until her death on September 20, 1969 in Redhill, Surrey.
Three Go to the Chalet School
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bookChanges for the Chalet School
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bookJoey and Co. in Tirol
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bookA Genius at the Chalet School
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bookThe Chalet School and Barbara
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bookShocks for the Chalet School
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bookTheodora and the Chalet School
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bookCarola Storms the Chalet School
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bookTom Tackles the Chalet School
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bookJoey Goes to the Oberland
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bookThe Chalet School and Rosalie
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bookMary-Lou of the Chalet School
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The Exploits of the Chalet Girls
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bookJo Returns to the Chalet School
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bookThe Princess of the Chalet School
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bookThe New House at the Chalet School
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bookThe Rivals of the Chalet School
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bookThe Chalet School and the Lintons
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bookEustacia Goes to the Chalet School
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bookThe Head Girl of the Chalet School
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bookThe Chalet Girls in Camp
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bookThe Chalet School and Jo
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bookJo of the Chalet School
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bookThe School at the Chalet
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