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Elinor Brent-Dyer remembered Find!
Westbury Manor Museum in Fareham have found the following memory of Elinor Brent-Dyer in the August 1987 edition of Fareham Past & Present. It was contributed by J.O. Hall who wrote:
"My mother was friendly with Mrs Baylis who mentioned that she had two new mistresses at her school and had a slight problem because they were in lodgings in the town and found little to do on Sundays in the winter. My mother, ever helpful, immediately offered to ask them to tea on a Sunday and this was arranged. The two ladies in question; Miss Le Poidevan. who was in her early twenties, came from the Channel islands and taught French at the school, and Miss Elinor M. Brent-Dyer, a little older who came from the Midlands and taught English and History, were a most pleasant pair and we enjoyed meeting them.
As a young boy, they used to fascinate me with their chat and my father used to enjoy teasing them in a kindly way. Miss Brent-Dyer was engaged in her spare time in writing children's books and she said she would like to devote herself entirely to writing but unfortunately there was no money to be made in it. My father used to encourage her and was always telling her to change her agent. She used to give us autographed copies of her books but as they were about schoolgirls they did not appeal to me very much. What a pity we have not kept them until today.
I think those two ladies were at the school for only a year or two and then, in in about 1925, Miss Brent-Dyer became a successful writer with her "Chalet" books. I believe she acquired a girls school in the West Midlands and we lost touch."
18 August 2009 from Penny
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