Abbey Connectors

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Abbey Connectors are titles by Elsie J. Oxenham that connect into her main Abbey Series They fall into several sub-series, listed here in best reading order, with the Abbey Titles they relate to shown in their place in the mini-series, but without publication details, which are on the main Abbey Series page:

Contents 1 Close Connectors 1.1 Camp Keema Series 1.2 Kentisbury Series 1.3 Quellyn/Woodend Series 1.4 Rocklands Series 1.5 Rachel & Damaris/Rainbows Series 2 Remote Connectors 2.1 Torment Series 2.2 Sussex Set 2.3 Swiss Set 2.4 Woody Dean Set

[edit] Close Connectors

[edit] Camp Keema Series

code	Title	Date	Publisher	Illustrator
CK1	The Crisis In Camp Keema	1928	Chambers	Percy Tarrant
CK2	Peggy and The Brotherhood	1936	R.T.S./G.O.P. †g	not credited
CK3	The Camp Mystery	1932	Collins †g	not credited
CK4	The Abbey Girls Play Up		also part of the main Abbey Series

[edit] Kentisbury Series

code	Title	Date	Publisher	Illustrator
K1	Patch and a Pawn	1940	Warne	not credited
K2	Rosamund's Tuckshop		also part of the main Abbey Series
K3	The Secrets of Vairy	1947	Muller	Margaret Horder
K4	Rosamund's Castle		also part of the main Abbey Series
K5	Jandy Mac Comes Back		also part of the main Abbey Series
K6	Song of the Abbey		also part of the main Abbey Series

[edit] Quellyn/Woodend Series

code	Title	Date	Publisher	Illustrator
QW1	The Girl Who Wouldn't Make Friends	1909	Nelson	P. B. Hickling
QW2	Rosamund's Tuckshop		also part of the main Abbey Series
QW3	Rosamund's Castle		also part of the main Abbey Series
QW4	New Girls At Wood End	1957	Frederick Books/Blackie	D/J Margery Gill
QW5	Robins in the Abbey		also part of the main Abbey Series

[edit] Rocklands Series

code	Title	Date	Publisher	Illustrator
Ro1	A Go-Ahead Schoolgirl	1919	Chambers	H. Earnshaw
Ro2	Tickles, or The School that was Different	1924	Partridge	not credited
Ro3	Jen of the Abbey School		also part of the main Abbey Series
Ro4	Rosaumnd's Victory		also part of the main Abbey Series

[edit] Rachel & Damaris/Rainbows Series

code	Title	Date	Publisher	Illustrator
Ra1	Damaris at Dorothy's	1937	SPCK/Sheldon	'Bea'
Ra2	Maidlin to the Rescue		also part of the main Abbey Series
Ra3	Damaris Dances	1940	O.U.P	Margaret Horder
Ra4	Adventure for Two	1941	O.U.P.	Margaret Horder
Ra5	Elsa Puts Things Right	1944	Muller	Margaret Horder
Ra6	Pernel Wins	1942	Muller	Margaret Horder
Ra7	Daring Doranne	1945	Muller	Margaret Horder
Ra8	Margery Meets the Roses	1947	Lutterworth †g	V. Bertoglio
Ra0	Mistress Nanciebel	1910	Hodder & Stoughton (later editions O.U.P.)	J. A. Durden

[edit] Remote Connectors

[edit] Torment Series

code	Title	Date	Publisher	Illustrator
T1	The School Torment	1920	Chambers	H. Earnshaw
T2	The Testing of the Torment	1925	Cassell	P. B. Hickling
T3	The Camp Fire Torment	1926	Chambers	Enid Browne

• Tormentil Grant appears in The Abbey Girls Go Back to School (A11) but this is the only real link with the Abbey Series.

[edit] Sussex Set

code	Title	Date	Publisher	Illustrator
Sx1	The Junior Captain	1923	Chambers	Percy Tarrant
Sx2	Peggy Makes Good	1927	Partridge	H. L. Bacon
Sx3	The School Without A Name	1924	Chambers	Nina K. Brisley
Sx4	Ven at Gregory's	1925	Chambers	Nina K. Brisley
Sx5	The Troubles of Tazy		see Sw4 below
Sx5	Patience and her Problems		see Wd3 below

[edit] Swiss Set

code	Title	Date	Publisher	Illustrator
Sw1	The Two Form Captains	1921	Chambers	Percy Tarrant
Sw2	The Captain of the Fifth	1922	Chambers	Percy Tarrant
Sw3	The Camp Mystery		see CK3 above
Sw4	The Troubles of Tazy	1926	Chambers	Percy Tarrant
Sw5	Patience and her Problems		see Wd3 below

[edit] Woody Dean Set

code	Title	Date	Publisher	Illustrator
Wd1	The School of Ups and Downs	1918	Chambers	H. Earnshaw
Wd2	Patience Joan,Outsider	1922	Cassell	not credited
Wd3	Patience and her Problems	1927	Chambers	Molly Benatar
Wd0	A School Camp Fire	1917	Chambers	Percy Tarrant

• †g = republished in paperback by Girls Gone By Publishers

See also The Elsie J. Oxenham Society/Abbey Chronicle web site, which includes extra notes on how the series fit with each other and connect into the Abbey Series.

Series by Elsie J. Oxenham

Abbey Series (1914-1959) Abbey Connectors: Camp Keema Series (1928-1936) • Kentisbury Series (1940-1954) • Quellyn/Woodend Series (1909-1957) • Rocklands Series (1919-1937) • Rachel & Damaris/Rainbows (1937-1947) • Torment Series (1920-1926) • Sussex Set (1923-1927) • Swiss Set (1921-1927) • Woody Dean Set (1917-1927) Non-Connectors: Deb Series (1929-1993) • Jinty Series (1916-1992) • Scottish Sequence (1907-1920) • Isolated Titles (1909-1937)