Oxenham Non-Connectors

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Dustjacket from Dorothy's Dilemma

Non-Connectors are titles by Elsie J. Oxenham that do not connect into her main Abbey Series.

There are four of these series, they have no connections with each other, or with any of EJO's other books. They are shown below in best reading order (which does not always accord with publication order) except for the Scottish Sequence (see Notes 3 & 4):

1 The Deb Series
2 The Jinty Series
3 The Scottish Sequence
4 Isolated Titles
5 Notes:

[edit] The Deb Series

code	Title	Date	Publisher	Illustrator
D1	Deb at School	1929	Chambers	Nina K. Brisley
D2	Deb of Sea House	1931	Chambers	Nina K. Brisley
D3	Deb Leads the Dormitory ^[1]	1993	Woodfield	Audrey Lee

[edit] The Jinty Series

code	Title	Date	Publisher	Illustrator
J1	The Tuckshop Girl	1916	Chambers	H Earnshaw
J2	The Reformation of Jinty	1933	Chambers	Rene Cloke
J3	Jinty's Patrol	1934	Newnes	not credited
J4	A Divided Patrol ^[2]	1992	Woodfield	'Ros'

[edit] The Scottish Sequence

code	Title	Date	Publisher	Illustrator
Sc1	Goblin Island	1907	Collins	Heath Robinson
Sc2	A Princess in Tatters	1908	Collins	Frank Adams
Sc3	A Holiday Queen	1910	Collins	T. J. Overnell
Sc4	Schoolgirls and Scouts	1914	Collins	Arthur Dixon
Sc5	Finding her Family ^[3]	1915	S.P.C.K.	W. S. Stacey
Sc6	Twins of Castle Charming ^[4]	1920	Swarthmore Press	none

Dustjacket from At School with the Roundheads

[edit] Isolated Titles

(listed in order of publication)

code	Title	Date	Publisher	Illustrator
Is1	The Conquest of Christina	1909	Collins	G. B. Foyster
Is2	Rosaly's New School	1913	Chambers	T. J. Overnell
Is3	At School with the Roundheads	1915	Chambers	H. Earnshaw
Is4	Expelled From School	1919	Collins	Victor Prost
Is5	The Girls of Gwynfa	1924	Warne	Nina K. Brisley
Is6	Dorothy's Dilemma	1930	Chambers	Nina K. Brisley
Is7	Sylvia of Sarn	1937	Warne	not credited

[edit] Notes:

^ In the early 1990s, Elsie J. Oxenham's niece discovered some unpublished manuscripts among her aunt's papers. Two of these were published shortly afterwards, as they continued series in which earlier titles had appeared during Oxenham's lifetime. This was the second title to be published (see note to J4).
^ This title was the first to be published of the manuscripts found with EJO's papers (see note to D3).
^ Finding Her Family is not set in Scotland, but includes the character Monica Howard, who also appears in Sc3 and Sc4.
^ Twins of Castle Charming comes between Sc3 and Sc4 in terms of series chronology, so is probably best read in that place rather than after the other titles. It is not set in Scotland, but largely in Switzerland. Characters from the preceding titles appear in various scenes during the book, and events from it are recalled by characters in Sc4.