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Elsie J Oxenham

(Elsie Jeanette Oxenham)

(1880 - 1960)

A celebrated English girls school story writer, Elsie J. Oxenham's real name was Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley. Born in 1880 in Southport, Lancashire, she was the daughter of writer William John Dunkerley, whose chosen pseudonym - John Oxenham - was a clear influence upon her own. Her brother, Roderic Dunkerley, was also an author (published under his own name), as was her sister Erica, who used the 'Oxenham' name as well. Oxenham grew up in Ealing, West London, where her family had moved when she was a baby, living there until 1922, when the family moved again, to Worthing. After the deaths of her parents, Oxenham lived with her sister Maida. She died in 1960.

Genres: Children's Fiction

Series

The Scottish Sequence
   1. Goblin Island (1907)
   2. A Princess in Tatters (1920)
   3. A Holiday Queen (1910)
   4. Schoolgirls and Scouts (1934)
   5. Finding Her Family (1918)

Quellyn / Woodend
1. The Girl Who Wouldn't Make Friends (1909)

Rachel & Damaris / Rainbows
   1. Mistress Nanciebel (1910)
   2. Damaris At Dorothy's (1937)
   3. Damaris Dances (1947)
   4. Adventure for Two (1949)
   5. Elsa Puts Things Right (1944)
   6. Pernel Wins (1942)
   7. Daring Doranne (1945)
   8. Margery Meets the Roses (1947)

Abbey
   1. The Girls of the Hamlet Club (1914)
   2. The Abbey Girls (1920)
   3. The Girls of the Abbey School (1921)
   4. Schooldays at The Abbey (1938)
   5. Secrets Of The Abbey (1949)
   6. Stowaways In The Abbey (1942)
   7. Schoolgirl Jen At The Abbey (1953)
   8. Strangers At The Abbey (1951)
   9. Selma At The Abbey (1951)
   10. Tomboys At The Abbey (1957)
   11. The Abbey Girls Go Back To School (1922)
   12. Jen of the Abbey School (1927)
   13. The New Abbey Girls (1923)
   14. The Abbey Girls Again (1924)
   15. The Abbey Girls in Town (1925)
   16. The Queen of the Abbey Girls (1926)
   17. The Abbey Girls Win Through (1928)
   The Abbey School (1928)
   18. The Abbey Girls At Home (1929)
   19. The Abbey Girls Play Up (1930)
   20. The Abbey Girls On Trial (1931)
   21. Biddy's Secret (1934)
   22. Rosamund's Victory (1933)
   23. Maidlin to the Rescue (1934)
   The Call of the Abbey School (1934)
   24. Joy's New Adventure (1935)
   25. Rosamund's Tuck-shop (1937)
   26. Maidlin Bears the Torch (1937)
   27. Rosamund's Castle (1938)
   28. Maid of the Abbey (1943)
   29. Jandy Mac Comes Back (1941)
   30. Two Joans At the Abbey (1945)
   31. An Abbey Champion (1946)
   32. Robins in the Abbey (1947)
   33. A Fiddler for the Abbey (1948)
   34. Guardians of the Abbey (1950)
   35. Rachel in the Abbey (1951)
   36. A Dancer from the Abbey (1953)
   37. The Song Of The Abbey (1954)
   38. Two Queens At the Abbey (1959)

Woody Dean
A School Camp Fire (1917)

Rocklands
1. A Go-ahead Schoolgirl (1919)

Torment
   1. The School Torment (1920)
   2. The Testing of the Torment (1925)
   3. The Camp Fire Torment (1926)

Abbey Connectors
   1. The Crisis in Camp Keema (1928)
   2. Peggy and the Brotherhood (1936)
   3. The Camp Mystery (1932)

Kentisbury
   1. Patch and a Pawn (1940)
   2. Rosamund's Tuck-shop (1937)
   3. The Secrets of Vairy (1947)
   4. Rosamund's Castle (1938)
   5. Jandy Mac Comes Back (1941)
   6. The Song Of The Abbey (1954)

Novels

   The Second Term At Rocklands (1930)
   The Third Term At Rocklands (1931)
   Jinty's Patrol (1934)
   Sylvia of Sarn (1937)
   The Girls of Gwynfa (1939)
   Jandy Mac Come Back (1959)
   Selma At The Library (1959)
   The Girls of Squirrel House (1960)

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