Dorita Fairlie Bruce
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Dorita Fairlie Bruce was a British children's author, most notably of the Dimsie books published between 1921 and 1941. Her books were second in popularity only to Angela Brazil
Angela Brazil
Angela Brazil was one of the first British writers of "modern schoolgirls' stories", written from the characters' point of view and intended primarily as entertainment rather than moral instruction. In the first half of the twentieth century she published nearly 50 books of girls' fiction, the...

's during the 1920s and '30s.

She was a pioneer in creating series of books which followed a group of girls throughout their schooldays and even beyond. Her Dimsie, Nancy and Springdale series all follow this pattern, which was widely imitated.http://www.ju90.co.uk/his.htm

The Colmskirk sequence, a set of nine novels for young adults, widens her scope, dealing with a group of families in the Scottish countryside around Largs
Largs
Largs is a town on the Firth of Clyde in North Ayrshire, Scotland, about from Glasgow. The original name means "the slopes" in Scottish Gaelic....

 from the seventeenth century to the twentieth. http://home.swipnet.se/flickbok/bruce.htm

Bruce was involved with the Girls' Guildry for over thirty years. She contributed factual articles to the Lamp of the Girls' Guildry magazine and Girls' Guildry plays a role in her Nancy series and gets a mention in her Dimsie series. The Girls' Guildry later merged with similar organisations to become the Girls' Brigade
Girls' Brigade
The Girls' Brigade is an international and interdenominational Christian youth organization. It was founded in 1893 in Dublin, Ireland. The modern organization was formed as the result of the amalgamation of three like-minded and similarly structured organizations in 1964...

.

The Dimsie books

  • The Senior Prefect (1921) (title changed in 1925 to Dimsie Goes To School
    Dimsie Goes To School
    Dimsie Goes To School is the first of the Dimsie books by author Dorita Fairlie Bruce. It was first published in 1921 under the title The Senior Prefect and changed in 1925 to Dimsie Goes To School. The book was illustrated by Wal Paget....

    )
  • Dimsie Moves Up
    Dimsie Moves Up
    Dimsie Moves Up is the second of the Dimsie books by author Dorita Fairlie Bruce. First published in 1921, the book was illustrated by Wal Paget. The protagonist Dimsie is now a year older and had moved up one grade at the Jane Willard Foundation....

    (1921)
  • Dimsie Moves Up Again (1922)
  • Dimsie Among the Prefects (1923)
  • Dimsie Grows Up (1924)
  • Dimsie Head Girl (1925)
  • Dimsie Goes Back (1927)
  • Dimsie Intervenes (1937)
  • Dimsie Carries On (1941)


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