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What does courage look like when your world is a classroom, but war reaches into every day?
In A Patriotic Schoolgirl, Angela Brazil brings the Great War into a British school, where lessons, games and friendships continue under the shadow of distant fighting. A young girl and her schoolmates face anxiety, shortage and the call to serve. Their familiar world asks more of them now: loyalty means something beyond taking a friend's side.
Friendship remains at the heart of the story. Girls grow close, quarrel, misjudge one another and make amends, while duty gives their choices a wider meaning. Brazil's bright, direct storytelling keeps school life moving through talk, incident and open emotion. Published in 1918, the book offers a period view of the home front through ordinary girls' lives.
What you’ll discover
- School life under pressure Enter a world of classrooms and games where distant events shape everyday concerns.
- Friendships that face a test Follow close bonds through quarrels, mistaken judgments and the work of making amends.
- Duty beyond the classroom Explore what service and loyalty mean to girls living with wartime anxiety and shortage.
- A lively school story Enjoy Brazil's humour, brisk pace and warm sympathy for her young heroines.
- The home front close up See the Great War from a girls' school rather than the fighting front.
Who will love it
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.
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- A school life turned toward the war
- Ordinary girls take up war work
- Friendship tested by duty and difference
- How Brazil tells it and why it matters
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Una studentessa patriottica
by Angela Brazil · 1918
A schoolgirl and her friends face wartime anxiety and shortage as duty to their country enters the classroom.
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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.
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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.
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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.
The author
Angela Brazil
1868–1947 · English children's writer
Angela Brazil (1868–1947) was an English children’s writer born in Preston, Lancashire. She wrote mainly stories about girls at boarding schools. Her books began appearing in 1904 and included The Nicest Girl in the School and The Youngest Girl in the Fifth. She lived in Coventry from 1911 until her death.
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