Date: 2007-03-30 11:11 pm (UTC)
"I Claudius" was published in 1934, but I doubt any pre-war schools would include it among the library for girls of any age. Possibly an adventurous 12-year-old with liberal parents might smuggle it in from home.

There's a book by Arthur Marshall called "Giggling in the Shrubbery" which might (or might not) be useful to you - it's a collection of reminiscences of pre-war schoolgirls (but probably more 1920's than 1930's). It needs taking with perhaps a pinch of salt - he appears to concentrate on noticeably odd behaviour - no school could exhibit all the conditions illustrated unless run by a truly certifiable head. Anyway, the books he mentioned as being banned in various schools are: anything by Angela Brazil (that was in 1920); "Tell England", by Ernest Raymond; "Sorrell & Son", by Warwick Deeping; "Gone with the Wind", and anything by Alexander Dumas (that was in a Catholic school). Georgette Heyer was mentioned as being permitted, but it may only have been for the older girls perhaps?
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