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Riassunto di Una studentessa patriottica
A chi è rivolto
For readers who love school stories full of friendships, games and rivalries, and anyone curious about how the First World War looked from a girls' classroom on the British home front.
Che cos’è questo libro
A Patriotic Schoolgirl is a school story by Angela Brazil, published in 1918, in the last year of the First World War. Brazil wrote lively books for girls, and here she turns her usual world of classrooms, games and friendships toward the war that touched every British household.
The book shows how a young girl and her schoolmates meet a time of anxiety, shortage and service. It gives you a picture of the home front as ordinary girls saw it, and a sense of what duty and loyalty meant to people of that day. Let us begin with the world the story is set in.
In questo riassunto
- 1A school life turned toward the warFree
- 2Ordinary girls take up war work
- 3Friendship tested by duty and difference
- 4How Brazil tells it and why it matters
Punto chiave 1 di 4
A school life turned toward the war
The story is set in Britain during the Great War, and it follows a girl at school whose days are shaped by events far away. Angela Brazil wrote it in 1918, while the fighting was still going on. She was describing a world her readers knew from their own streets and homes.
In books of this kind, a school is a small country of its own, with rules, loyalties and rivalries. Here the larger country presses in at the gates. Lessons, games and friendships carry on, yet news from the front, shortages and absent fathers and brothers are never far from anyone's mind.
The title points to the heart of the book. Patriotism here is not only a word on a poster or a line in a song. It is a feeling a young person must learn to turn into daily action, in the classroom, at home and in the town around her. The story asks what that kind of love of country looks like when you are still a schoolgirl.
That’s 1 of 4 key points.
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Questions about Una studentessa patriottica
What is A Patriotic Schoolgirl about?
It is a school story set in Britain during the First World War. It shows a schoolgirl and her friends facing the war at home, through war work, friendship and a growing sense of duty to their country.
When was A Patriotic Schoolgirl written?
Angela Brazil published it in 1918, in the final year of the First World War. It was written for girls who were living through the war, so it reflects the feelings and tasks of that moment.
Who was Angela Brazil?
Angela Brazil was a British writer who died in 1947. She became known for lively school stories for girls, full of friendships, games and rivalries, and she was one of the leading names in that kind of fiction.
Is A Patriotic Schoolgirl a true story?
No, it is a work of fiction. It is set against real events, the First World War and the British home front, but the school and the girls in it are invented by the author.
Is A Patriotic Schoolgirl hard to read?
Not really. The style is bright and direct, and the story is easy to follow. The school setting and the friendships are simple to enjoy.