A Sprite at School

by Constance M. White

190 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1947

About the author

Born in Croyden in 1903, Constance Mary Lockett was the daughter of a City accountant, and had three siblings. She was educated at Croyden Secondary School (currently Selhurst Grammar School), and briefly attended art school before becoming a photographic colorist. She was married to estate agent Henry Victor White when she was twenty-two years old, and had one daughter, born in 1928. White's first book, The Adventurous Three, was published in 1939, and was based upon stories the author told to her daughter, Jeanette. After the interruption of the Second World War, White returned to writing, publishing forty-three more books from 1947 to 1971.

Reviews

[Sally S · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a lovely little book. Young Ariel Forrester has had a sheltered upbringing with her widowed father and finds boarding school difficult at first. This has the usual school rivalries and mini dramas but there were a couple of sweet subplots about Ariel's mother, her love of ballet and her father finding love again. Definitely a cut above the run of the mill school story of this period.