One Summer Term

by Marjorie Lloyd, Astrid Walford (Illustrator)

"A tranquil golden story for twelve year-olds or so, about a small group of boarders at a girls' school in the Welsh Marches..." -The Junior Bookshelf

247 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1959

About the author

British children's author Marjorie Lloyd was born in 1909 in Haydock, Lancashire. She was educated at Cowley Girls' School, St. Helen's, from 1920-27, and at Birmingham University, where she read Mathematics, and took a teaching diploma, from 1928-32. She also studied at the City of Liverpool College of Art. A teacher for a number of years, she was variously employed at Haydock, Macclefield, Wigton (in Cumbria), and at the Princess Mary High School in Halifax. She retired in 1948 in order to devote herself to writing, going to live with a younger sister.