Dimsie Goes to School

Dimsie Goes To School  

1929 Oxford University Press Hardcover Edition
Author(s) Dorita Fairlie Bruce
Illustrator Wal Paget
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Series Dimsie
Genre(s) Children's novel
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication date 1925
Media type Print (Hardcover)
Pages 277 pp
ISBN NA

Dimsie Goes To School is the first of the Dimsie books by author Dorita Fairlie Bruce. It was first published in 1921 under the title The Senior Prefect and changed in 1925 to Dimsie Goes To School. The book was illustrated by Wal Paget.

The protagonist of the book is ten year old Daphne Isabel Maitland, who is nicknamed Dimsie, on account of her initials. The book begins with Dimsie travelling in a train and about to start school at the Jane Willard Foundation, where her older cousin (also Daphne) is a prefect.

The popularity of the continuing series led to Dimsie Goes to School being reprinted several more times by the OUP, and in the 1950s by Spring Books. The illustrations kept pace with changing fashions, as the following two illustrations of the same scene demonstrate. In the 1983 edition published by Goodchild changes were also made to the text to reflect changing social mores.

School Books by Dorita Fairlie Bruce listed in their Series

Jane Willard (Dimsie) (1921-1941)

The Senior Prefect (Dimsie Goes To School, 1925) (1921) • Dimsie Moves Up (1921) • Dimsie Moves Up Again (1922) • Dimsie Among the Prefects (1923) • Dimsie, Head Girl (1925) • Dimsie Intervenes (1936) • Dimsie Grows Up (1924) • Dimsie Goes Back (1927) • Dimsie Carries On (1941)

St Bride's and Maudsley (Nancy) (1923-1944)

The Girls of St Brides (1923) • Nancy at St Brides (1933) • That Boarding-School Girl (1925) • The New Girl and Nancy (1926) • Nancy to the Rescue (1937) • The Best Bat in the School (1931) • Nancy in the Sixth (1935) • Nancy Returns to St Brides (1938) • Nancy Calls the Tune (1944)

Springdale  (1928-1939)

The New House Captain (1928) • The Best House in the School (1930) • Captain of Springdale (1932) • The New House at Springdale (1934) • Prefects at Springdale (1936) • Captain Anne (1939)

Toby  (1931-1942)

The School on the Moor (1931) • The School in the Woods (1940) • Toby at Tibbs Cross (1942)

Colmskirk Novels (1930-1955)

The King's Curate (1930) • Mistress Mariner (1932) • A Laverock Lilting (1945) • The Bees on Drumwhinnie (1952) • Wild Goose Quest (1945) • The Serendipity Shop (1947) • Triffeny (1950) • The Debatable Mound (1953) • The Bartle Bequest (1955)

Sally  (1956-1961)

Sally Scatterbrain (1956) • Sally Again (1959) • Sally's Summer Term (1961)
British children's and young adults' literature (1900–1949)