First Term at Malory Towers by Enid Blyton

Tuesday, Jan 29: ‘After tea Mummy finished Malory Towers, which I read.’ How do we know this? Because Gillian’s diary mentions that Enid was writing the second Malory Towers book in January, 1946, with teenage Gillian reading it hot off the typewriter:įriday, Jan 25: ‘I read as far as Mummy had got with second book of Malory Towers.’ All the same, it was to be a significant move if only because it inspired the glorious Malory Tower series of books, outdoor swimming and all.įirst Term at Malory Towers came out in the summer of 1946, but we know it was written towards the end of 1945. Gillian wasn’t new to the boarding school experience as she’d attended Godstowe - just six miles from Green Hedges - since the autumn of 1942. This work presents stories about life at boarding school as readers follow the girls' lives through 6 years at Malory Towers.Enid’s elder daughter had just turned 14 when she first went to Benenden School as a boarder in the autumn of 1945. There are new students to induct, sporting matches to be won, tempers to control and tricks to play on teachers. Games, lessons, quarrels, rows and tricks all form part of a very lively term for Darrell and her friends, but the biggest event of all is the fifth form pantomime produced entirely by the girls.Ī work about the girls at Malory Towers in which Darrell becomes Head Girl and finds her last term at Malory Towers is a lively and dramatic one.ĭarrell and her friends grow together as they share their school days.

This year there is the tension of exams but there is all the fun of the summer term as well, and the high spirits of a lively and imaginative form of girls. The Upper Fourth promises to be another exciting year at Malory Towers. There are some hair-raising incidents as the new girls settle down for an enjoyable and eventful term at Malory Towers. The girls return for another term to find several new girls in their form. But the first term is not all fun and Darrell has some tricky problems to cope with.ĭarrell, Sally, Gwendoline, Mary-Lou and all the other girls from First Term at Malory Towers are now in the second form and they are all as lively as ever.

She quickly settles down and makes new friends. Darrell Rivers is off to boarding school for the first time.

First Term at Malory Towers by Enid Blyton