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Boarding School Genre
Books in the Boarding School genre:
The Governess or, Little Female Academy (1749)
This was the first novel for children, a boarding school story. This facsimile edition was published in 1968.
Author(s):
Sarah Fielding
Illustrator(s):
None
Tom Brown at Oxford (1861)
Author(s):
Thomas Hughes
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo’s Boys (1871)
Author(s):
Louisa May Alcott
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
What Katy Did at School (1873)
Katy goes East to boarding school. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Susan Coolidge
Illustrator(s):
Addie Ledyard
Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers (1882)
A boy, on the eve of his return to boarding school, trades places with his father. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Jo’s Boys and How They Turned Out (1886)
Author(s):
Louisa May Alcott
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Nellie Doran (1888)
When Nellie's brother sells his horses, the family decides to send Nellie to the convent school, where her talent for music is soon revealed. This one of the few boarding school stories set in a Catholic institution.
Author(s):
Miriam Agatha
Illustrator(s):
None
Tom Playfair (1890)
Author(s):
Francis J. Finn, S.J.
Illustrator(s):
None
Tom Brown’s School Days (1896)
School days at Rugby by an old boy. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Thomas Hughes
Illustrator(s):
Edmund J. Sullivan
Every Incha Briton (1901)
Harry Blake arrives at Cressingham as the school is on the brink of dissolving in chaos.
Author(s):
Meredith Fletcher
Illustrator(s):
Sydney Cowell
More Tales of the Stumps (1902)
A collection of cricket tales.
Author(s):
Horace Bleackley
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
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The Pothunters (1902)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
R. Noel Pocock
A Prefect’s Uncle (1903)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
R. Noel Pocock
Tales of St. Austin’s (1903)
A dozen ‘public school’ stories set at St. Austin’s. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
R. Noel Pocock
E. F. Skinner
T. M. R. Whitwell
Tales of St. Austin’s (1903)
A dozen ‘public school’ stories set at St. Austin’s. Read online at gutenberg.org.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
R. Noel Pocock
E. F. Skinner
T. M. R. Whitwell
The Gold Bat (1904)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
T. M. R. Whitwell
Play the Game! (1904)
A British boys’ school story.
Author(s):
Harold Avery
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The Girls of St. Gabriel's (1905)
Ursula and her brother are sent to France to stay with their aunt when their mother goes out to be with their father in Mauritius.
Author(s):
May Theodora Baldwin
Illustrator(s):
Percy Tarrant
The Head of Kay’s (1905)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
T. M. R. Whitwell
Jefferson Junior (1905)
Graham Clarence St. Clair Lilley is befriended by Jefferson Junior, younger brother of the Captain of Warhurst as they are on the train to school.
Author(s):
Meredith Fletcher
Illustrator(s):
J. R. Burgess