Angela Brazil’s A Fortunate Term is another of the author’s beloved girls’ school stories, following its young heroines through a term filled with friendships, adventures, and the small dramas of boarding-school life. Brazil, who did much to define and popularize the genre, captures the energy and loyalties of schoolgirls with warmth and good humour.
The novel celebrates pluck, friendship, and the excitements of school, while painting a vivid picture of the customs and routines of girls’ education in the early twentieth century. Generations of young readers delighted in her tales of term-time happenings. For readers who enjoy classic school stories, or who are interested in the history of girls’ schooling and the literature written for them, it offers a charming and engaging read.