Best Books Set in Boarding Schools

thorold: Shows that you can have a school story without a "big match"

aulsmith : I don't remember that much being in a boarding school.

CurrerBell: Only chapters five through nine (and to a degree also chapter ten) are the "boarding school chapters" at Lowood Institute, but they are so very memorable for Helen Burns (Charlotte's memorialization of her deceased eldest sister, Maria) as well as the villainous character of Miss Scatcherd. Far more realistic than anything Dickens ever did!

thorold: The bridge between PGW's early school stories and his fiction for grown-ups

thorold: Lesbian classic: The author's novelisation of her film "Mädchen in Uniform"

thorold: Set in a school, but mostly about the teachers and their families

CurrerBell : Too mushy and sentimental for my personal taste. Also, I much prefer novels that focus on the students rather than on the teachers.

thorold: "I expect you'll be becoming a schoolmaster, sir. That's what most of the gentlemen does, sir, that gets sent down for indecent behaviour."

thorold: Probably unreadable by anyone over the age of nine, but I used to love it.

thorold : The book that launched the genre, but too determinedly moral to be a good read