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    The Rebel of the School
    The Rebel of the School
    The Rebel of the School
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    The Rebel of the School

    By L. T. Meade

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateAug 21, 2007

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      Bedad! L.T. Meade explores the idea of the "Wild Irish Girl" with a vengeance in this school story from 1902, which sees the vivacious, high-spirited, rule-breaking Kathleen O'Hara come to England to attend the Great Shirley School. With four hundred pupils, the school is divided between one hundred "Foundationers," who are from poorer backgrounds, and are allowed to attend the school for free, and some three hundred non-foundation girls, who are paying pupils. The tensions between the two groups - the non-foundationers look down on the Foundation girls, who feel resentful in return - are exacerbated by Kathleen, who has been allowed to roam free at her grandfather's castle in Ireland, and who has no notion of or respect for English class divisions or school rules. Although rooming with the family of Alice Tennant, who is a non-foundation girl, she chooses her friends from amongst the Foundation girls, and forms a secret society, which she calls "The Wild Irish Girls." This leads to quite a bit of trouble, not just for Kathleen, who will not be materially harmed by it, but for the girls who are her supposed friends, and whose social position is more precarious than hers. Eventually, after much sturm and drang, Kathleen's rebellion is quashed, and in a very brief conclusion, all is resolved amicably...A late-19th-century author of Anglo-Irish background, L.T. Meade grew up in County Cork, before moving to London as a young woman and launching a career writing children's books, mysteries, historical adventures, and sentimental romances. She penned over three hundred books, a number of which - The Rebel of the School, Wild Kitty, A Wild Irish Girl, etc. - featured the kind of "Wild Irish Girl" character (or caricature, if one prefers) seen here. This type - the free-spirited, often poetic, always emotional girl, who has trouble conforming to the stricter social rules of English society, but nevertheless has a heart of gold, and some emotional wisdom to share with her English peers - can be traced back to Sydney Owenson's 1806 The Wild Irish Girl: A National Tale, which features a romance between a dissolute English nobleman, and the daughter of a dispossessed Gaelic prince. There is an interesting article by Carole Dunbar on the use of the type in the work of L.T. Meade and Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey in Studies in Children's Literature, 1500-2000. I understand that more recently, Sandra McAvoy's "The 'Wild Irish Girl' in Selected Novels of L.T. Meade" appeared in Adolescence in Modern Irish History. I would imagine that the use of the type here, and the book's connection to Ireland, explains why The Rebel of the School was chosen for our syllabus, in the class on the history of children's literature that I took, while getting my masters at an Irish university.Despite finding all of this interesting, from a literary and social history perspective, I found that I did not enjoy reading The Rebel of the School. It was not my first book from Meade - before taking my masters, I had read A World of Girls and The Girls of St. Wode's - so I was expecting the style of writing, and the sometimes divided plot-lines. What I wasn't expecting was to find the main character so thoroughly annoying. I recall reading this, in my university library, and texting one of my masters cohort afterward, to say that if Kathleen had said the word 'bedad' one more time, I might have chucked the book across the room. It isn't just the showy "Irishness" here, that felt over the top and stereotypically "stage Irish" to me, it was the fact that Kathleen is so oblivious to the welfare and real feelings of her so-called friends, leading them into situations that could be very damaging for them, perhaps even imperil their ability to get an education, and therefore, possible ability to prosper economically. It irritated me to see the author depict her as somehow loving, when it is so clear that her actions are driven by her own desires and feelings, and are entirely inward-looking. It was particularly troubling to see this quality of obliviousness, or indifference to the good of others, set down to some kind of "Irish" nature. Finally, I found the conclusion, which is terribly rushed, completely unconvincing. It felt as if, having created a mess through her character, Meade ran out of time and energy to untangle the snarled plot-lines of her story, and just decided to end it with a kind of one-page "and it all turned out well" declaration.I'm not sure I would highly recommend this one, unless it be to the determined fan of Meade, who does have her devotees, or to the reader interested in the 'Wild Irish Girl' character in children's fiction.

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