48. For Whom The Bell Rings -- Backpacks and Boarding Schools
From The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Just in time for what’s potentially the most anticipated back-to-school season ever, we go beyond John Knowles’s A Separate Peace and J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye to discuss books by women about boarding schools (and school in general). We also compare what we’ve read with Amy’s real-life all-girls’ Catholic school experience and Kim’s imaginary one.
Discussed in this episode:
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode on Mariana by Monica Dickens
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
The “Fairacre” series by Miss Read
Mrs. Pringle of Fairacre by Miss Read
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode on Nightingale Wood by Stella Gibbons