The Madcap of the School

Set at an English girls' boarding school during the First World War, The Madcap of the School follows Raymonde, a lively and headstrong pupil, through the friendships, rivalries, and scrapes of school life. Written from the schoolgirls' own point of view rather than as moral instruction, it is typical of Angela Brazil's popular run of boarding-school fiction, which helped establish the genre of the modern schoolgirl story in early twentieth-century Britain.