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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Many of the girls fails to be mentioned after a couple of books. Sometimes, the narrative handwaves it by saying that they moved up a form, but most of the times, they just disappear.
** A lot of girls introduced in Darrell's first year was never mentioned again in the sequels. These includes Katherine, the head girl of the first formers, and Emily, who was Darrell's sort-of friend before she befriends Sally.
** Daphne, a major character in the second book who becomes Mary Lou's best friend at the climax of the novel, fades into the background after this fact. Her name re-appeared once in the fifth book, but she was otherwise unseen and unheard by the audience. Ellen, also introduced in Book 2, and played a major role there, all but disappeared in the following books.
** In the fifth form, we were introduced to Janet, a student held back from the previous batch of girls who was later revealed to be a very talented seamstress, did not return in the final book, and wasn't mentioned when the girl were talking about some of the girls who has left school to do other things (e.g. Mavis went to train in singing, and Catherine stayed home to help out her mother).
** A lot of girls introduced in Darrell's first year was never mentioned again in the sequels. These includes Katherine, the head girl of the first formers, and Emily, who was Darrell's sort-of friend before she befriends Sally.
** Daphne, a major character in the second book who becomes Mary Lou's best friend at the climax of the novel, fades into the background after this fact. Her name re-appeared once in the fifth book, but she was otherwise unseen and unheard by the audience. Ellen, also introduced in Book 2, and played a major role there, all but disappeared in the following books.
** In the fifth form, we were introduced to Janet, a student held back from the previous batch of girls who was later revealed to be a very talented seamstress, did not return in the final book, and wasn't mentioned when the girl were talking about some of the girls who has left school to do other things (e.g. Mavis went to train in singing, and Catherine stayed home to help out her mother).
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* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Almost all of the girls go about in pairs - Betty and Alicia, Darrell and Sally, Irene and Belinda, Mary-Lou and Daphne, Bill and Clarissa (who double up as TomboyAndGirlyGirl). And if another girl joins the group, it is called "Threesomes", as was with Felicity, Susan and June. This was quite common in the fifties.
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* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Almost all of the girls go about in pairs - Betty and Alicia, Darrell and Sally, Irene and Belinda, Mary-Lou and Daphne, Bill and Clarissa (who double up as TomboyAndGirlyGirl).TomboyAndGirlyGirl), Jean and Ellen, Mavis and Zerelda. And if another girl joins the group, it is called "Threesomes", as was with Felicity, Susan and June. This was quite common in the fifties.
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* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Almost all of the girls go about in pairs - Betty and Alicia, Darrell and Sally, Mary-Lou and Daphne, Bill and Clarissa (who double up as TomboyAndGirlyGirl). And if another girl joins the group, it is called "Threesomes", as was with Felicity, Susan and June. This was quite common in the fifties.
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* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Almost all of the girls go about in pairs - Betty and Alicia, Darrell and Sally, Irene and Belinda, Mary-Lou and Daphne, Bill and Clarissa (who double up as TomboyAndGirlyGirl). And if another girl joins the group, it is called "Threesomes", as was with Felicity, Susan and June. This was quite common in the fifties.
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* GenderBlenderName: The heroine's name, Darrell, is based on Enid's husband's middle name.
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* IntergenerationalFriendship: Before Clarissa's arrival and her eventual friendship with her, Bill is very good friends with Miss Peters, the third-form mistress who shares her love for horses and masculine qualities.
* LadyLooksLikeADude: If it's not for her skirt (and the fact that she's attending an all-girl school), Bill is undistinguishable from a boy.
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* OneGenderSchool: The titular Malory Towers, like most schools that show up in Enid Blyton books, is one of these.
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* RealWomenDontWearDresses: The more feminine ladies who fusses over their appearance and are averse to playing sports, such as Gwendoline, Maureen and Daphne, are portrayed in a more negative light than the more tomboy girls like Alicia, Darrell and Bill.
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* BecomingTheMask: At first, Daphne only befriends Mary-Lou to get the latter's help with her French homeworks. However, she eventually gets to like Mary-Lou for real.
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* BrilliantButLazy: Alicia, and Belinda at first. Darrell starts off as this until she's bluntly informed by her form teacher that while she's by no means unintelligent, she simply can't afford to slack off because her marks won't stand it. Darrell takes it to heart, thankfully.
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* BrilliantButLazy: Alicia, Alicia is very smart, has good memory, and Belinda at first. Darrell starts off as this until she's bluntly informed by can easily achieve one of the top ranks in her form teacher that while she's by no means unintelligent, without studying much. Darrell initially tries to imitate her, but finds that, despite being a bright girl, she simply can't cannot afford to slack off because off, or her marks won't stand it. Darrell takes it to heart, thankfully.grades will slip badly.
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* HeterosexualLifePartner: Almost everyone has one.
* HairTriggerTemper: Both the Mam'zelles and Darrell before she learns to control it.
* HairTriggerTemper: Both the Mam'zelles and Darrell before she learns to control it.
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* HeterosexualLifePartner: Almost everyone has one.
*one, as the story is set in an all-girl school, and most of them go about in pairs. Darrell is best friends with Sally, Alicia almost always hangs out with Betty, Irene and Belinda are a pair of artistically talented scatterbrains, Bill and Clarissa gets along ''very'' well due to their love for horses, etc.
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* SheCleansUpNicely[=/=]TheGlassesGottaGo: Clarissa was initially considered plain-looking, or even ugly, due to her thick spectacles and braces. When she takes them off, she becomes one of the most attractive girls in the cast.
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* SheCleansUpNicely[=/=]TheGlassesGottaGo: SheCleansUpNicely: Clarissa was initially considered plain-looking, or even ugly, due to her thick spectacles and braces. When she takes them off, she becomes one of the most attractive girls in the cast.
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* OnlySaneMan: Gwen's father. His daughter is a SpoiledBrat and his wife- and Gwen's governess- are airheads who think the world of her and spoil her rotten. He alone is the only person who is trying to make his daughter into a decent human being.
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* OnlySaneMan: Gwen's father. His daughter is a SpoiledBrat and his wife- and Gwen's governess- are airheads who think the world of her and spoil her rotten. He alone is the only person who is trying to make teach his daughter into to be a decent human being.
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* ScholarshipStudent: Ellen comes from a lower-middle class family, and it was repeatedly mentioned that the only reason she could afford to go to Malory Towers is because she won a scholarship there (and even then, the cost of the uniform and school supplies had still taken a toll on her family's finances).
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* ScholarshipStudent: Ellen comes from a lower-middle class family, and it was repeatedly mentioned that the only reason she could afford to go to Malory Towers is because she won a scholarship there (and even then, the cost of the uniform and school supplies had still taken takes a toll on her family's finances).
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* StepfordSmiler: Zerelda always appear happy and carefree, even when she was having problems at school (i.e. when she was forced to go down one grade because she was unable to keep up with the fourth form's work standard)
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* StepfordSmiler: Zerelda always appear appears happy and carefree, even when she was is having problems at school (i.e. when she was is forced to go down one grade because she was is unable to keep up with the fourth form's work standard)
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Zerelda gets given one by an angry drama teacher who tells her very bluntly that her acting is terrible. After everyone's calmed down, the same drama teacher tells her kindly but firmly that she simply doesn't have the gift that all great actors need, and advises her to give up, which she does.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Zerelda gets given one by an angry drama teacher who tells her very bluntly that her acting is terrible. After everyone's calmed down, the same drama teacher tells her kindly but firmly that she simply doesn't have the gift that all great actors need, the ability to lose yourself in the character, and advises her to give up, which she does.
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** Gwendoline is a subversion. She's pretty, vain, spoilt lazy and often pretends to take timid girls like Mary-Lou or Clarissa "under her wing" while trying to manipulate them to do her bidding. However, most other girls are more disgusted by her personality that she rarely gets her way at all.
** Alicia is an unusually positive version. She's one of the most popular girls in her form and Darrell was very eager to be her friend and followed her around during her first year in Malory Towers. She's also sarcastic and condescending towards people who are not as brilliant as herself, but she's never truly malicious, and many of the other girls admires her wit and honesty.
** Daphne initially comes off as another Gwendoline. Beautiful, rich, and boastful, but manages to use her charms to have Mary-Lou and Mam'zelle Dupont wrapped around her fingers. She gets much better at the end of book 2, where she saved Mary-Lou's life and became the latter's best friend.
** Alicia is an unusually positive version. She's one of the most popular girls in her form and Darrell was very eager to be her friend and followed her around during her first year in Malory Towers. She's also sarcastic and condescending towards people who are not as brilliant as herself, but she's never truly malicious, and many of the other girls admires her wit and honesty.
** Daphne initially comes off as another Gwendoline. Beautiful, rich, and boastful, but manages to use her charms to have Mary-Lou and Mam'zelle Dupont wrapped around her fingers. She gets much better at the end of book 2, where she saved Mary-Lou's life and became the latter's best friend.
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** Gwendoline is a subversion. She's pretty, vain, spoilt spoilt, lazy and often pretends to take timid girls like Mary-Lou or Clarissa "under her wing" while trying to manipulate them to do her bidding. However, most other of the girls are more so disgusted by her personality that she rarely gets her way at all.
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** Alicia is an unusually positive version. She's one of the most popular girls in her form and Darrell was very eager to be her friendand followed her around during her first year in Malory Towers. She's also sarcastic and condescending towards people who are not as brilliant as herself, but she's never truly malicious, and many of the other girls admires admire her wit and honesty.
** Daphne initially comes off as another Gwendoline.Beautiful, She is beautiful, rich, and boastful, but manages to use her charms to have Mary-Lou and Mam'zelle Dupont wrapped around her fingers. finger. She gets much better at the end of book 2, where she saved saves Mary-Lou's life and became the latter's becomes her best friend.
** Alicia is an unusually positive version. She's one of the most popular girls in her form and Darrell was very eager to be her friend
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* ApronMatron: Their school's matron is plump, strict, but fair and motherly.
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** Darrell is a NiceGirl the most of the time, but she has a really nasty temper and no problems with using physical violence when she gets mad.
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* BigSisterInstinct: Darrell feels extremely protective towards Felicity when the latter first arrived at the school in ''Upper Fourth at Malory Towers'', and warned her younger sister not to be too friendly with Alicia's cousin June, whom Darrell considers a bad influnece. Inverted when [[spoiler: June gets Darrell sacked from her position as Head Girl and gloats about it to Felicity. Little sister is NOT amused.]]
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* BigSisterInstinct: Darrell feels extremely protective towards Felicity when the latter first arrived arrives at the school in ''Upper Fourth at Malory Towers'', and warned warns her younger sister not to be too friendly with Alicia's cousin June, whom Darrell considers a bad influnece.influence. Inverted when [[spoiler: June gets Darrell sacked from her position as Head Girl and gloats about it to Felicity. Little sister is NOT amused.]]
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** Gwendoline is the most notable example. She almost consistently kept her position as the bottom of her class, her teachers remarks on her terrible work, and the only reason she was allowed to move on to the fifth form despite failing her exams is because she's far too old to be kept in the fourth form.
** Zerelda Brass in the third book. She is a year older than the protagonists, but since she couldn't keep up with the work of the fourth formers, she was sent down to the third.
** Connie, who needs her twin's help to get good grades. In the fifth novel, she was held back for a year for failing her Certs, while Ruth moved on to the fifth form with the others.
** Zerelda Brass in the third book. She is a year older than the protagonists, but since she couldn't keep up with the work of the fourth formers, she was sent down to the third.
** Connie, who needs her twin's help to get good grades. In the fifth novel, she was held back for a year for failing her Certs, while Ruth moved on to the fifth form with the others.
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** Gwendoline is the most notable example. She almost consistently kept keeps her position as the bottom of her class, her teachers remarks remark on her terrible work, and the only reason she was is allowed to move on to the fifth form despite failing her exams is because that she's far too old to be kept in the fourth form.
** Zerelda Brass in the third book. She isa one year older than the protagonists, but since she couldn't keep up with the work of the fourth formers, she was sent down to the third.
** Connie, who needs her twin's help to get good grades. In the fifth novel, shewas is held back for a year for failing her Certs, while Ruth moved moves on to the fifth form with the others.
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** Connie, who needs her twin's help to get good grades. In the fifth novel, she
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* DontSplitUsUp: The twins Connie and Ruth, at least at first. Connie's marks are much worse than Ruth and she knows that she might have to be kept back a year, [[spoiler: so she forces Ruth to purposely do badly in her tests so that they would be held back a year together, and Ruth agrees]]. Things eventually work out, however, and Ruth discovers she actually likes not always being in Connie's shadow.
* DreadfulMusician: Maureen, who has a powerful voice, but is quite tone deaf. Her attempts at "singing" was mistaken for "yowling" by Bridget and Connie.
* DumbBlonde: Both Gwendoline Mary Lacey, and her near-double, Maureen, have distinctive blonde hair and both does poorly in school.
* DreadfulMusician: Maureen, who has a powerful voice, but is quite tone deaf. Her attempts at "singing" was mistaken for "yowling" by Bridget and Connie.
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* DontSplitUsUp: The twins Connie and Ruth, at least at first. Connie's marks are much worse than Ruth Ruth's and she knows that she might have to be kept back a year, [[spoiler: so she forces Ruth to purposely do badly in her tests so that they would be both are held back a year together, year, and Ruth agrees]]. Things eventually work out, however, and Ruth discovers she actually likes not always being in Connie's shadow.
* DreadfulMusician: Maureen, who has a powerful voice, but is quite tone deaf. Her attempts at "singing"was are mistaken for "yowling" by Bridget and Connie.
* DumbBlonde: Both Gwendoline MaryLacey, Lacey and her near-double, Maureen, have distinctive blonde hair and both does do poorly in school.
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* FatalFlaw: Jealousy for Sally. In the first book, she behaves unpleasantly because she is jealous of her younger sister, who she believes to be stealing their parents' attention. In the third book, she was jealous of Alicia for being over-friendly with Darell (because Alicia's best friend, Betty, was away) and treats them both coolly until Betty finally returns to school.
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* FatalFlaw: Jealousy for Sally. In the first book, she behaves unpleasantly because she is jealous of her younger sister, who she believes to be stealing their parents' attention. In the third book, she was is jealous of Alicia for being over-friendly with Darell (because Alicia's best friend, Betty, was is away) and treats them both coolly coldly until Betty finally returns to school.
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* AlphaBitch: Gwendoline, sometimes. Alicia has her moments, and her cousin June is even worse.
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** Gwendoline is a subversion. She's pretty, vain, spoilt lazy and often pretends to take timid girls like Mary-Lou or Clarissa "under her wing" while trying to manipulate them to do her bidding. However, most other girls are more disgusted by her personality that she rarely gets her way at all.
** Aliciahas is an unusually positive version. She's one of the most popular girls in her moments, form and Darrell was very eager to be her cousin June is even worse. friend and followed her around during her first year in Malory Towers. She's also sarcastic and condescending towards people who are not as brilliant as herself, but she's never truly malicious, and many of the other girls admires her wit and honesty.
** Daphne initially comes off as another Gwendoline. Beautiful, rich, and boastful, but manages to use her charms to have Mary-Lou and Mam'zelle Dupont wrapped around her fingers. She gets much better at the end of book 2, where she saved Mary-Lou's life and became the latter's best friend.
** Gwendoline is a subversion. She's pretty, vain, spoilt lazy and often pretends to take timid girls like Mary-Lou or Clarissa "under her wing" while trying to manipulate them to do her bidding. However, most other girls are more disgusted by her personality that she rarely gets her way at all.
** Alicia
** Daphne initially comes off as another Gwendoline. Beautiful, rich, and boastful, but manages to use her charms to have Mary-Lou and Mam'zelle Dupont wrapped around her fingers. She gets much better at the end of book 2, where she saved Mary-Lou's life and became the latter's best friend.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Darrell is a NiceGirl the most of the time, but she has a really nasty temper and no problems with using physical violence when she gets mad.
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** Darrell is a NiceGirl the most of the time, but she has a really nasty temper and no problems with using physical violence when she gets mad.
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* BigSisterInstinct: Darrell towards Felicity in ''Upper Fourth at Malory Towers''. Inverted when [[spoiler: June gets Darrell sacked from her position as Head Girl and gloats about it to Felicity. Little sister is NOT amused.]]
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* BigSisterInstinct: Darrell feels extremely protective towards Felicity when the latter first arrived at the school in ''Upper Fourth at Malory Towers''.Towers'', and warned her younger sister not to be too friendly with Alicia's cousin June, whom Darrell considers a bad influnece. Inverted when [[spoiler: June gets Darrell sacked from her position as Head Girl and gloats about it to Felicity. Little sister is NOT amused.]]
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* BookDumb: Connie, who needs her twin's help to get good grades. Eventually, Ruth gets fed up with her.
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** Gwendoline is the most notable example. She almost consistently kept her position as the bottom of her class, her teachers remarks on her terrible work, and the only reason she was allowed to move on to the fifth form despite failing her exams is because she's far too old to be kept in the fourth form.
** Zerelda Brass in the third book. She is a year older than the protagonists, but since she couldn't keep up with the work of the fourth formers, she was sent down to the third.
** Connie, who needs her twin's help to get good grades. Eventually, Ruth gets fed up with her.
** Gwendoline is the most notable example. She almost consistently kept her position as the bottom of her class, her teachers remarks on her terrible work, and the only reason she was allowed to move on to the fifth form despite failing her exams is because she's far too old to be kept in the fourth form.
** Zerelda Brass in the third book. She is a year older than the protagonists, but since she couldn't keep up with the work of the fourth formers, she was sent down to the third.
** Connie, who needs her twin's help to get good grades. Eventually, Ruth gets fed up with her.
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* ClingyJealousGirl: In this first few books, this is Sally's flaw.
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* FatAndSkinny: The two French mistresses. Mamzelle Dupont is a FatComicRelief who gets the most brunt of jokes from the girls but very popular because of this, while Mamzelle Rougier is very strict, LeanAndMean, and is not very well-liked.
* {{Flanderization}}: Gwendoline starts off as a SpoiledBrat but becomes a ManipulativeBitch.
* {{Flanderization}}: Gwendoline starts off as a SpoiledBrat but becomes a ManipulativeBitch.
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* FatAndSkinny: The two French mistresses. Mamzelle Dupont is a FatComicRelief who gets the most brunt of jokes from the girls but is very good-natured very popular because of this, it, while Mamzelle Rougier is very strict, LeanAndMean, and is not very well-liked.
*{{Flanderization}}: Gwendoline starts off as a SpoiledBrat but becomes a ManipulativeBitch.FatalFlaw: Jealousy for Sally. In the first book, she behaves unpleasantly because she is jealous of her younger sister, who she believes to be stealing their parents' attention. In the third book, she was jealous of Alicia for being over-friendly with Darell (because Alicia's best friend, Betty, was away) and treats them both coolly until Betty finally returns to school.
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* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Bridget to Moira. June is an annoying younger cousin to Alicia.
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* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Bridget to Moira. June is an annoying younger cousin to Alicia. Averted with Darrell's younger sister Felicity.
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* DontSplitUsUp: The twins Connie and Ruth, at least at first. However, Connie's marks are much worse than Ruth and has to be kept back a year. Ruth discovers she actually likes not always being in Connie's shadow.
* DreadfulMusician: Maureen.
* DumbBlonde: [[InsistentTerminology Gwendoline]] ''[[InsistentTerminology Mary]]'' Lacey, and her near-double, Maureen.
* DreadfulMusician: Maureen.
* DumbBlonde: [[InsistentTerminology Gwendoline]] ''[[InsistentTerminology Mary]]'' Lacey, and her near-double, Maureen.
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* DontSplitUsUp: The twins Connie and Ruth, at least at first. However, Connie's marks are much worse than Ruth and has she knows that she might have to be kept back a year. year, [[spoiler: so she forces Ruth to purposely do badly in her tests so that they would be held back a year together, and Ruth agrees]]. Things eventually work out, however, and Ruth discovers she actually likes not always being in Connie's shadow.
* DreadfulMusician:Maureen.
Maureen, who has a powerful voice, but is quite tone deaf. Her attempts at "singing" was mistaken for "yowling" by Bridget and Connie.
* DumbBlonde:[[InsistentTerminology Gwendoline]] ''[[InsistentTerminology Mary]]'' Both Gwendoline Mary Lacey, and her near-double, Maureen.Maureen, have distinctive blonde hair and both does poorly in school.
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* FatAndSkinny: The two French mistresses. Mamzelle Dupont is a FatComicRelief who gets the most brunt of jokes from the girls but very popular because of this, while Mamzelle Rougier is very strict, LeanAndMean, and is not very well-liked.
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* IHaveBrothers: Bill, the tomboy of the cast, has seven. Alicia has three, althought she is not a tomboy.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Mary-Lou, consistently.
* IrritationIsTheSincerestFormOfFlattery
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* IHaveBrothers: Bill, the tomboy of the cast, has seven. Alicia has three, althought three and, although she is not that much of a tomboy.
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* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Betty and Alicia, Darrell and Sally, Mary-Lou and Daphne, Bill and Clarissa (who double up as TomboyAndGirlyGirl). This was quite common in the fifties.
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* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Almost all of the girls go about in pairs - Betty and Alicia, Darrell and Sally, Mary-Lou and Daphne, Bill and Clarissa (who double up as TomboyAndGirlyGirl).TomboyAndGirlyGirl). And if another girl joins the group, it is called "Threesomes", as was with Felicity, Susan and June. This was quite common in the fifties.
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* SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack: Pretty much enforced, as the girls live at their school.
* SeriousBusiness: Sports. And plays.
* SpiritedYoungLady: Zerelda Brass.
* SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack: Pretty much enforced, as the girls live at their school.
* SeriousBusiness: Sports. And plays.
* SpiritedYoungLady: Zerelda Brass.
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* SheCleansUpNicely[=/=]TheGlassesGottaGo: Clarissa was initially considered plain-looking, or even ugly, due to her thick spectacles and braces. When she takes them off, she becomes one of the most attractive girls in the cast.
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* StepfordSmiler, type 1: Zerelda has a lot of problems at school but she seems always happy. She doesn't feel happy on the inside though.
* SternTeacher: Many of the teachers.
* StickyFingers: [[spoiler: Daphne. The girls take pity on her, though.]]
* SternTeacher: Many of the teachers.
* StickyFingers: [[spoiler: Daphne. The girls take pity on her, though.]]
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* StepfordSmiler, type 1: StepfordSmiler: Zerelda has a lot of always appear happy and carefree, even when she was having problems at school but (i.e. when she seems always happy. She doesn't feel happy on was forced to go down one grade because she was unable to keep up with the inside though.
*fourth form's work standard)
%%* SternTeacher: Many of the teachers.
* StickyFingers: [[spoiler:Daphne. The girls take pity on Daphne]] was the one who stole the girls' stuffs from the second book. They forgave her, though.]]
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* TallDarkAndSnarky: Alicia is this, sometimes bordering on JerkAss.
* [[TeachersPet Teacher's Pet]]: Various. Daphne manages it very successfully by turning on the charm with Mam'zelle Dupont.
* TeenGenius: Irene at music and maths (if nothing else), Belinda at art and Mavis at singing.
* TheGlassesGottaGo: Clarissa.
* TheQuietOne: Mary-Lou.
* [[TeachersPet Teacher's Pet]]: Various. Daphne manages it very successfully by turning on the charm with Mam'zelle Dupont.
* TeenGenius: Irene at music and maths (if nothing else), Belinda at art and Mavis at singing.
* TheGlassesGottaGo: Clarissa.
* TheQuietOne: Mary-Lou.
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* TallDarkAndSnarky: Alicia is this, sometimes bordering on JerkAss.
* [[TeachersPet Teacher's Pet]]:TeachersPet: Various. Daphne manages it very successfully by turning on the charm with Mam'zelle Dupont.
* TeenGenius: Irene at music and maths (if nothing else), Belinda at art and Mavis at singing. \n* TheGlassesGottaGo: Clarissa.\n* x
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* BritishWeather
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* BritishWeatherUsefulNotes/BritishWeather
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* BackToSchool: The start of every book.
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* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Averted - Connie and Ruth are technically identical twins, but their development has left them different, with Connie being physically larger, stronger and plumper than her twin with straight hair, wheras Ruth is smaller and skinnier with wavy hair.
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* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Averted - Connie and Ruth are technically identical twins, but their development has left them different, with Connie being physically straight-haired, larger, stronger and plumper than her twin with straight hair, wheras sister, whereas Ruth is smaller and skinnier with wavy hair.
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* ApronMatron: Their school's plump, strict but fair, motherly matron.
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* ApronMatron: Their school's matron is plump, strict strict, but fair, motherly matron.fair and motherly.
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* BigSisterInstinct: Darrell towards Felicity in Upper Fourth at Malory Towers. Inverted when [[spoiler: June gets Darrell sacked from her position as Head Girl and gloats about it to Felicity. Little sister is NOT amused.]]
* BlatantLies: All of Gwen's boasting is seen as this by all other characters, except her mother, her governess and whichever gullible new kid is following her round this term.
* BlatantLies: All of Gwen's boasting is seen as this by all other characters, except her mother, her governess and whichever gullible new kid is following her round this term.
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** Alicia has a very sharp tongue, and reacts to any imagined or real slight by using it liberally. One of the worst examples was when she started nursing a grudge against Sally because Sally was made Head Girl, but Alicia wasn't even considered as an option. Keep in mind here that Sally had no idea that this was happening and no control over who was selected.
* BigSisterInstinct: Darrell towards Felicity inUpper ''Upper Fourth at Malory Towers.Towers''. Inverted when [[spoiler: June gets Darrell sacked from her position as Head Girl and gloats about it to Felicity. Little sister is NOT amused.]]
* BlatantLies: All of Gwen's boasting is seen as this by all other characters, except her mother, her governess and whichever gullible new kid is following herround around this term.
* BigSisterInstinct: Darrell towards Felicity in
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* BookDumb: Conney, who needs her twin's help to get good grades.
* BrilliantButLazy: Alicia, and Belinda at first.
* BrilliantButLazy: Alicia, and Belinda at first.
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* BookDumb: Conney, Connie, who needs her twin's help to get good grades.
grades. Eventually, Ruth gets fed up with her.
* BrilliantButLazy: Alicia, and Belinda at first. Darrell starts off as this until she's bluntly informed by her form teacher that while she's by no means unintelligent, she simply can't afford to slack off because her marks won't stand it. Darrell takes it to heart, thankfully.
* BrilliantButLazy: Alicia, and Belinda at first. Darrell starts off as this until she's bluntly informed by her form teacher that while she's by no means unintelligent, she simply can't afford to slack off because her marks won't stand it. Darrell takes it to heart, thankfully.
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* CheatersNeverProsper: Gwendoline tries to skip an exam faking a heart disease. She is exposed and forced to take the exam anyways. Played with [[spoiler: Ellen: She is very hardworker but she despairs when her grades are low despite her efforts and she tries to cheat. She is discovered by Darrell and Miss Grayling forgives her.]]
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* CheatersNeverProsper: Gwendoline tries to skip an exam by faking a heart disease. She is exposed and forced to take the exam anyways. anyway. Played with [[spoiler: Ellen: She is very hardworker but A scholarship girl, she despairs when knows that she's a pretty average student and thus must work as hard as she can to keep up. Unfortunately, all the stress takes its toll on her grades are low despite her efforts and she tries resolves to cheat. She is discovered by Darrell and Miss cheat because she can't see another way to keep up. The ensuing events make her state of health become even worse until she becomes extremely ill. However, once the truth comes out, Ms Grayling forgives has no problems with forgiving her.]]
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* CorporalPunishment: Edited out in more recent versions. Alicia reminding her annoying cousin of how she was "spanked with a hairbrush" over the summer is changed to her reminding her she was "scolded".
* CostumePorn: Some of the outfits made for the school play are stated to count as a combination of this and GorgeousPeriodDress made by a talented schoolgirl seamstress aided by legions of lower-formers.
* DeadpanSnarker: Alicia ever so much.
* CostumePorn: Some of the outfits made for the school play are stated to count as a combination of this and GorgeousPeriodDress made by a talented schoolgirl seamstress aided by legions of lower-formers.
* DeadpanSnarker: Alicia ever so much.
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* CorporalPunishment: Edited out in more recent versions. Alicia reminding her annoying cousin of how she was "spanked with a hairbrush" over the summer is changed to her reminding her June of how she was "scolded".
* CostumePorn: Some of the outfits made for the school play are stated to count as a combination of this andGorgeousPeriodDress GorgeousPeriodDress, as made by a talented schoolgirl seamstress who was aided by legions of lower-formers.
* DeadpanSnarker:Alicia Alicia, ever so much.
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* DontSplitUsUp: The twins Connie and Ruth, at least at first. However, Connie is much less intelligent than Ruth and has to be kept back a year. Ruth discovers she actually likes not always being in her shadow.
* DreadfulMusician: Mauren.
* DumbBlonde: [[InsistentTerminology Gwendoline ''Mary'']]Lacey and Maureen
* DysfunctionalFamily: Quite a sad one actually. Gwendoline's mother is an ignorant airhead who, together with her old governess, spoils Gwendoline completely while her father tries to stop this (which results in much tears and screaming) and is often disappointed by his daughter's actions. In turn Gwendoline acts offended and coldly towards him.
* DreadfulMusician: Mauren.
* DumbBlonde: [[InsistentTerminology Gwendoline ''Mary'']]Lacey and Maureen
* DysfunctionalFamily: Quite a sad one actually. Gwendoline's mother is an ignorant airhead who, together with her old governess, spoils Gwendoline completely while her father tries to stop this (which results in much tears and screaming) and is often disappointed by his daughter's actions. In turn Gwendoline acts offended and coldly towards him.
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* DontSplitUsUp: The twins Connie and Ruth, at least at first. However, Connie is Connie's marks are much less intelligent worse than Ruth and has to be kept back a year. Ruth discovers she actually likes not always being in her Connie's shadow.
* DreadfulMusician:Mauren.
Maureen.
* DumbBlonde: [[InsistentTerminologyGwendoline ''Mary'']]Lacey Gwendoline]] ''[[InsistentTerminology Mary]]'' Lacey, and Maureen
her near-double, Maureen.
* DysfunctionalFamily: Quite a sad one actually. Gwendoline's mother is an ignorant airhead who, together with her old governess, spoils Gwendoline completely while her father tries to stop this (which results in much tears and screaming) and is often disappointed by his daughter's actions. Inturn turn, Gwendoline shuns him and acts offended and coldly towards him.like a brat as a punishment.
* DreadfulMusician:
* DumbBlonde: [[InsistentTerminology
* DysfunctionalFamily: Quite a sad one actually. Gwendoline's mother is an ignorant airhead who, together with her old governess, spoils Gwendoline completely while her father tries to stop this (which results in much tears and screaming) and is often disappointed by his daughter's actions. In
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* ExtremeDoormat: Mary-Lou initially, but she got better. Ruth expands. Catherine is this ''on purpose.''
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* ExtremeDoormat: Mary-Lou initially, but she got better. Ruth expands. expands from this. Catherine is this ''on purpose.''purpose'', and dear God does it annoy everyone- as she never really learns, being helpful is one thing, but when nobody wants you to help them, it's best to just back off and try being you instead of a saint.
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* FunnyForeigner: Their French mistress.
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* FunnyForeigner: Their French mistress.mistresses. One is generally nice, but tends to overreact to everything. The other is just plain mean.
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--> ''Darrell...didn't like to see the faithful Mary-Lou sitting so long with somebody else. Why, Mary-Lou had tagged along behind Darrell and Sally for terms and terms! Surely she wasn't going to make that awful Daphne her friend.''
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--> ''Darrell... didn't like to see the faithful Mary-Lou sitting so long with somebody else. Why, Mary-Lou had tagged along behind Darrell and Sally for terms and terms! Surely she wasn't going to make that awful Daphne her friend.''
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* GuiltByCoincidence:[[spoiler: Ellen. The girls think she is stealing... she is trying to cheat because her grades are very low despite her hardworking attitude and she doesn´t want to dissapoint her family.]]
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* GuiltByCoincidence:[[spoiler: GuiltByCoincidence: [[spoiler: Ellen. The girls think Things are going missing, and because nobody really likes Ellen, they decide that she is stealing... the scapegoat. In reality, Ellen is overworking herself to the detriment of her health as she is tries to get good marks, and her only real crime was trying to cheat on the tests because her grades are very low despite marks were failing. The real thief was Daphne, who, to be fair, was absolutely horrified when she realised that Ellen was going to be unfairly blamed for her hardworking attitude and she doesn´t want to dissapoint her family.crimes.]]
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* HugeSchoolgirl: Amanda.
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* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Mary-Lou consistently.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Alicia. She is a fun girl and very popular but she can be really callous ocassionally and has no any compassion for weaker people.
* LargeHam: Zerelda, the American Foreign Exchange Student, thinks she's an incredible actress. But she's not.
* ManipulativeBitch: Gwendoline.
* NewTransferStudent: The school gets a few new ones every year. Once because their school burnt down.
* LargeHam: Zerelda, the American Foreign Exchange Student, thinks she's an incredible actress. But she's not.
* ManipulativeBitch: Gwendoline.
* NewTransferStudent: The school gets a few new ones every year. Once because their school burnt down.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Alicia. She is a She's fun girl and very popular popular, but she can be really callous ocassionally has absolutely no problem with using her sharp tongue on anyone who annoys her, and has no any compassion for weaker people.
she lacks compassion, even refusing to consider that a friend might not have done something wrong.
* LargeHam: Zerelda, the American Foreign Exchange Student, thinks she's an incredibleactress. But she's not.
actress, and ends up going into LargeHam overdrive when given the opportunity to play Juliet for the drama teacher. She gets very harshly disabused of the notion.
* ManipulativeBitch:Gwendoline.
Gwendoline, to the point that it's a wonder that the girls never got sick of her and just told Ms Grayling what she's done.
* NewTransferStudent: The school gets a few new ones every year.Once because their One notable example was Amanda, after her old school burnt burned down.
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* OnlySaneMan: Gwen's father. His daughter is a SpoiledBrat, his wife and governess are two airhead who believes Gwen's obvious lies and spoil her rotten. He is the only one trying to make a decent person of his daughter.
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* OnlySaneMan: Gwen's father. His daughter is a SpoiledBrat, SpoiledBrat and his wife wife- and governess are two airhead who believes Gwen's obvious lies governess- are airheads who think the world of her and spoil her rotten. He alone is the only one person who is trying to make his daughter into a decent person of his daughter.human being.
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* RichInDollarsPoorInSense: The Jones's family.
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* SeriousBusiness: Sports. And plays.
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* StickyFingers: [[spoiler:Daphne]]
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* StickyFingers: [[spoiler:Daphne]][[spoiler: Daphne. The girls take pity on her, though.]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Zerelda gets given one by an angry drama teacher who tells her very bluntly that her acting is terrible. After everyone's calmed down, the same drama teacher tells her kindly but firmly that she simply doesn't have the gift that all great actors need, and advises her to give up, which she does.
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* YoungerThanTheyLook: Zeralda Brass is only a year older than the other girls, but she has been mistaken for a grown woman. Justified, since she tries to act older than she is.
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* YoungerThanTheyLook: Zeralda Brass is only a year older than the other girls, but she has been mistaken for a grown woman. Justified, since she tries to act older than she is.is, and it's noted that without her makeup she almost looks like a different person.
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* BookDumbBookDumb: Conney, who needs her twin's help to get good grades.
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* Jerkass/JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Alicia. She is a fun girl and very popular but she can be really callous ocassionally and has no any compassion for weaker people.
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* RichInDollarsPoorInSenseRichInDollarsPoorInSense: The Jones's family.
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* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Bridget to Moira.
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* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Bridget to Moira. June is an annoying younger cousin to Alicia.
* ArmorPiercingSlap: God, Darrell. She slaps Gwen and shoves Sally in the first book, has a big fight with Ellen in the second and shakes June in the fourth.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Darrell is a NiceGirl the most of the time, but she has a really nasty temper and no problems with using physical violence when she gets mad.
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* IHaveBrothers: Bill, the tomboy of the cast, has seven. Alicia has three.
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* DreadfulMusician
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* DreadfulMusicianDreadfulMusician: Mauren.
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* BigSisterInstinct: Darrell towards Felicity in Upper Fourth at Malory Towers. Inverted when [[spoiler: June gets Darrell sacked from her position as Head Girl and gloats about it to Felicity. Little sister is NOT amused.]]
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* CatchYourDeathOfCold:
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* CatchYourDeathOfCold:CatchYourDeathOfCold: Mavis suffers from this in the third book and she loses her voice for a while.
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* CheatersNeverProsper
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* CheatersNeverProsperCheatersNeverProsper: Gwendoline tries to skip an exam faking a heart disease. She is exposed and forced to take the exam anyways. Played with [[spoiler: Ellen: She is very hardworker but she despairs when her grades are low despite her efforts and she tries to cheat. She is discovered by Darrell and Miss Grayling forgives her.]]
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* CloudCuckoolandersMinderCloudCuckoolandersMinder: Irene and Belinda.
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* GuiltByCoincidence
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''Malory Towers'' is a series of six novels by British children's author Enid Blyton, featuring the fictional Cornish seaside boarding school of the same name. Though the originals were written from 1946 to 1951, the series OutlivedItsCreator - in 2009 six more books were added to the series by author Pamela Cox, who has also made additions to Blyton's series ''Literature/StClares''.
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''Malory Towers'' is a series of six novels by British children's author Enid Blyton, Creator/EnidBlyton, featuring the fictional Cornish seaside boarding school of the same name. Though the originals were written from 1946 to 1951, the series OutlivedItsCreator - in 2009 six more books were added to the series by author Pamela Cox, who has also made additions to Blyton's series ''Literature/StClares''.
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* ChasteTeens: Enforced, as it's a traditional [[TheForties Forties]]/[[TheFifties Fifties]] British [[OneGenderSchool single-sex]] BoardingSchool.
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* AnachronismStew: One infamous book cover of ''Upper Fourth at Malory Towers'' shows the girls in [[http://www.qbd.com.au/products/l/9289/9780749719289.jpg modern day t-shirts, drinking lemonade out of a plastic bottle.]]
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* AlphaBitch: Gwendoline, sometimes. Alicia has her moments, and her cousin June is even worse.
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* AlphaBitch: Gwendoline, sometimes. Alicia has her moments, and her cousin June is even worse.
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* PlayingSick: Gwendoline tries this in ''Upper Fourth at Malory Towers'', faking a serious heart condition to get out of difficult end-of-term exams. * PoolScene: In ''Upper Fourth at Malory Towers'' the girls have a midnight picnic by the pool.
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* PlayingSick: Gwendoline tries this in ''Upper Fourth at Malory Towers'', faking a serious heart condition to get out of difficult end-of-term exams.
* PoolScene: In ''Upper Fourth at Malory Towers'' the girls have a midnight picnic by the pool.
* PoolScene: In ''Upper Fourth at Malory Towers'' the girls have a midnight picnic by the pool.
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* AlphaBitch: Gwendoline, sometimes.
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* AlphaBitch: Gwendoline, sometimes. Alicia has her moments, and her cousin June is even worse.
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* DontSplitUsUp: The twins Connie and Ruth, at least at first. However, when it is discovered that she is cheating with all her classes by copying Ruth, Connie is kept behind a year and Ruth discovers she actually likes not always being in her shadow.
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* DontSplitUsUp: The twins Connie and Ruth, at least at first. However, when it is discovered that she is cheating with all her classes by copying Ruth, Connie is much less intelligent than Ruth and has to be kept behind back a year and year. Ruth discovers she actually likes not always being in her shadow.
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* DysfunctionalFamily: Quite a sad one actually. Gwendoline's mother is an ignorant airhead who, together with her old governess, spoils Gwendoline completely while her father tries to stop this (which results in much tears and screaming) and is often disappointed by his daughter's actions. In turn Gwendoline acts offended and coldly towards him. She seems to have a moment of MyGodWhatHaveIDone near the end when her father [[spoiler:nearly dies]]though.
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* DysfunctionalFamily: Quite a sad one actually. Gwendoline's mother is an ignorant airhead who, together with her old governess, spoils Gwendoline completely while her father tries to stop this (which results in much tears and screaming) and is often disappointed by his daughter's actions. In turn Gwendoline acts offended and coldly towards him. She seems to have a moment of MyGodWhatHaveIDone near the end when her father [[spoiler:nearly dies]]though.
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* ExtremeDoormat: Catherine and Ruth. Mary-Lou initially, but she got better.
** Emily and Violet too, since they seem to have no personality.
* FatGirl: Gwendoline and Maureen. May also count as HollywoodPudgy due to differing standards back then (everyone was skinny in the wake of rationing!), or maybe it's just hilariously inaccurate drawing from whoever illustrated the Dragon books.
** Emily and Violet too, since they seem to have no personality.
* FatGirl: Gwendoline and Maureen. May also count as HollywoodPudgy due to differing standards back then (everyone was skinny in the wake of rationing!), or maybe it's just hilariously inaccurate drawing from whoever illustrated the Dragon books.
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* ExtremeDoormat: Catherine and Ruth. Mary-Lou initially, but she got better.
** Emily and Violet too, since they seem to have no personality.
* FatGirl: Gwendoline and Maureen. May also count as HollywoodPudgy due to differing standards back then (everyone was skinny in the wake of rationing!), or maybe it's just hilariously inaccurate drawing from whoever illustrated the Dragon books.better. Ruth expands. Catherine is this ''on purpose.''
** Emily and Violet too, since they seem to have no personality.
* FatGirl: Gwendoline and Maureen. May also count as HollywoodPudgy due to differing standards back then (everyone was skinny in the wake of rationing!), or maybe it's just hilariously inaccurate drawing from whoever illustrated the Dragon books.
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* FrenchMaid: Mary-Lou speaks excellent French because her family employed one in the holidays.
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* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Throughout the series Mary-Lou is shown to be friendly, loyal and honest and even overcomes her extreme shyness and her fears when she thinks that others need her help.
* InstitutionalBullying: Instead of actually punishing them themselves, teachers often tell responsible members of a form that they should "do something" about Student X, commonly sending them to Coventry.
* InstitutionalBullying: Instead of actually punishing them themselves, teachers often tell responsible members of a form that they should "do something" about Student X, commonly sending them to Coventry.
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* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Throughout the series Mary-Lou is shown to be friendly, loyal and honest and even overcomes her extreme shyness and her fears when she thinks that others need her help.
* InstitutionalBullying: Instead of actually punishing them themselves, teachers often tell responsible members of a form that they should "do something" about Student X, commonly sending them to Coventry.consistently.
* InstitutionalBullying: Instead of actually punishing them themselves, teachers often tell responsible members of a form that they should "do something" about Student X, commonly sending them to Coventry.
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* LargeHam: Zerelda.
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* LargeHam: Zerelda.
* MakeWayForThePrincess: The "snob" ofZerelda, the novel usually attempts this, often without success.American Foreign Exchange Student, thinks she's an incredible actress. But she's not.
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* ParentalFavouritism: Darrell's best friend Sally was very scared of this in the first book when her parents had a baby, and believed her parents sent her away to boarding school to get rid of her. [[spoiler: Thankfully, her suspicions proved unfounded.]]
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* PlayingSick: Gwendoline tries this in ''Upper Fourth at Malory Towers'', faking a serious heart condition to get out of difficult end-of-term exams. She successfully fools her mother, her governess and Mam'zelle and is sent home, [[spoiler: but is eventually found out and sent back to school to take exams she didn't bother to study for]].
* PoolScene: In ''Upper Fourth at Malory Towers'' the girls have a midnight picnic by the pool.
* PopularIsDumb: Averted - most popular students are shown as good people, with only one stated to be unintelligent.
* PoolScene: In ''Upper Fourth at Malory Towers'' the girls have a midnight picnic by the pool.
* PopularIsDumb: Averted - most popular students are shown as good people, with only one stated to be unintelligent.
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* PlayingSick: Gwendoline tries this in ''Upper Fourth at Malory Towers'', faking a serious heart condition to get out of difficult end-of-term exams. She successfully fools her mother, her governess and Mam'zelle and is sent home, [[spoiler: but is eventually found out and sent back to school to take exams she didn't bother to study for]].
* PoolScene: In ''Upper Fourth at Malory Towers'' the girls have a midnight picnic by the pool.
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* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Betty and Alicia, Darrell and Sally, Mary-Lou and Daphne, Bill and Clarissa (who double up as TomboyAndGirlyGirl). This was quite common in the fifties, although with quotes like this you have to wonder...
--> ''Mary-Lou thought Daphne was lovely. She couldn't help gazing and gazing at her. She would never, never like her as much as she liked Darrell and Sally, of course, but she couldn't help warming to her prettiness and nice manners.''
* RuleOfPool: Students reluctant to swim are frequently pushed in, especially Gwendoline.
--> ''Mary-Lou thought Daphne was lovely. She couldn't help gazing and gazing at her. She would never, never like her as much as she liked Darrell and Sally, of course, but she couldn't help warming to her prettiness and nice manners.''
* RuleOfPool: Students reluctant to swim are frequently pushed in, especially Gwendoline.
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* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Betty and Alicia, Darrell and Sally, Mary-Lou and Daphne, Bill and Clarissa (who double up as TomboyAndGirlyGirl). This was quite common in the fifties, although with quotes like this you have to wonder...
--> ''Mary-Lou thought Daphne was lovely. She couldn't help gazing and gazing at her. She would never, never like her as much as she liked Darrell and Sally, of course, but she couldn't help warming to her prettiness and nice manners.''
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--> ''Mary-Lou thought Daphne was lovely. She couldn't help gazing and gazing at her. She would never, never like her as much as she liked Darrell and Sally, of course, but she couldn't help warming to her prettiness and nice manners.''
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''Malory Towers'' is a series of six novels by British children's author Enid Blyton, featuring the fictional Cornish seaside boarding school of the same name. Though the originals were written from 1946 to 1951, the series OutlivedItsCreator - in 2009 six more books were added to the series by author Pamela Cox, who has also made additions to Blyton's series ''[[StClares St Clare's]]''.
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''Malory Towers'' is a series of six novels by British children's author Enid Blyton, featuring the fictional Cornish seaside boarding school of the same name. Though the originals were written from 1946 to 1951, the series OutlivedItsCreator - in 2009 six more books were added to the series by author Pamela Cox, who has also made additions to Blyton's series ''[[StClares St Clare's]]''.
''Literature/StClares''.
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[[caption-width-right:350:The old book covers compared to the new ones.]]
''Malory Towers'' is a series of six novels by British children's author Enid Blyton, featuring the fictional Cornish seaside boarding school of the same name. Though the originals were written from 1946 to 1951, the series OutlivedItsCreator - in 2009 six more books were added to the series by author Pamela Cox, who has also made additions to Blyton's series ''[[StClares St Clare's]]''.
The series follows the heroine, [[GenderBlenderName Darrell Rivers]], from her first year at Malory Towers to when she leaves. Other characters include Sally Hope, Darrell's level-headed best friend; Felicity Rivers, Darrell's younger sister; Gwendoline Mary Lacey, the form's spoilt martyr; Alicia Johns, who is sharp tongued, competitive and intelligent; Mary-Lou, small and timid, but very kind hearted; Irene, scatterbrained music and maths genius; Belinda, scatterbrained artistic genius; Jean, shrewd and straightforward, and Wilhelmina (Bill), completely horse-mad.
The characters are very similar to those in the ''[[StClares St Clare's]]'' series.
The series is believed to be semi-autobiographical, and the name "Darrell Rivers" is clearly drawn from Blyton's second husband's name, Kenneth Darrell Waters. It is also widely supposed that Blyton based the creation on the famous Scottish boarding school St Leonards School in St Andrews, which is, of course, the heroine’s University destination.
A lot of information on the series can be found [[http://www.enidblyton.net/malory-towers here]].
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!Contains examples of:
* AllsWellThatEndsWell: The end of every book, pretty much.
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Averted - Connie and Ruth are fraternal twins, with Connie being physically larger, stronger and plumper than her twin with straight hair, wheras Ruth is smaller and skinnier with wavy hair.
* AlphaBitch: Gwendoline, sometimes.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Bridget to Moira.
* ApronMatron: Their school's plump, strict but fair, motherly matron.
* BackToSchool: The start of every book.
* BeautifulAllAlong: Clarissa, once she [[TheGlassesGottaGo takes off her glasses]] and gets her braces removed is revealed to be strikingly beautiful instead of just "plain" as she was considered before.
* BlatantLies: All of Gwen's boasting is seen as this by all other characters, except her mother, her governess and whichever gullible new kid is following her round this term.
* BoardingSchool: The titular school.
* BookDumb
* BrilliantButLazy: Alicia, and Belinda at first.
* BritishAccents: Including Jean's Scottish accent.
* BritishWeather
* CatchYourDeathOfCold:
* CatholicSchoolGirlsRule: Not Catholic, no, but near-constantly uniformed since they live at the school.
* CharacterDevelopment: Almost every girl in the school learns a valuable lesson at some point and begins to change.
* CharacterFocus: Generally, the first few chapters have quite a bit of this for each new girl to allow the reader to get to know them all.
* ChasteTeens: Enforced, as it's a traditional [[TheForties Forties]]/[[TheFifties Fifties]] British [[OneGenderSchool single-sex]] BoardingSchool.
* CheatersNeverProsper
* ClearTheirName: Happens several times, e.g. when [[spoiler: Ellen is wrongly accused of stealing in ''Second Form at Malory Towers'']].
* ClingyJealousGirl: In this first few books, this is Sally's flaw.
* CloudCuckoolandersMinder
* ComingOfAgeStory: Speaking about the whole series, yes.
* ConspicuousConsumption
* CorporalPunishment: Edited out in more recent versions. Alicia reminding her annoying cousin of how she was "spanked with a hairbrush" over the summer is changed to her reminding her she was "scolded".
* CostumePorn: Some of the outfits made for the school play are stated to count as a combination of this and GorgeousPeriodDress made by a talented schoolgirl seamstress aided by legions of lower-formers.
* DeadpanSnarker: Alicia ever so much.
* DivideAndConquer: When rivalries over who is whose best friend get to a head.
* DontSplitUsUp: The twins Connie and Ruth, at least at first. However, when it is discovered that she is cheating with all her classes by copying Ruth, Connie is kept behind a year and Ruth discovers she actually likes not always being in her shadow.
* DreadfulMusician
* DumbBlonde: [[InsistentTerminology Gwendoline ''Mary'']]Lacey and Maureen
* DysfunctionalFamily: Quite a sad one actually. Gwendoline's mother is an ignorant airhead who, together with her old governess, spoils Gwendoline completely while her father tries to stop this (which results in much tears and screaming) and is often disappointed by his daughter's actions. In turn Gwendoline acts offended and coldly towards him. She seems to have a moment of MyGodWhatHaveIDone near the end when her father [[spoiler:nearly dies]]though.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment
* ExtremeDoormat: Catherine and Ruth. Mary-Lou initially, but she got better.
** Emily and Violet too, since they seem to have no personality.
* FatGirl: Gwendoline and Maureen. May also count as HollywoodPudgy due to differing standards back then (everyone was skinny in the wake of rationing!), or maybe it's just hilariously inaccurate drawing from whoever illustrated the Dragon books.
* {{Flanderization}}: Gwendoline starts off as a SpoiledBrat but becomes a ManipulativeBitch.
* FoodPorn: If written descriptions of dinners and midnight feasts count.
* FrenchMaid: Mary-Lou speaks excellent French because her family employed one in the holidays.
* FunnyForeigner: Their French mistress.
* GiftedlyBad
* GreenEyedMonster: Sometimes the girls can get rather... possessive over each other.
--> ''Darrell...didn't like to see the faithful Mary-Lou sitting so long with somebody else. Why, Mary-Lou had tagged along behind Darrell and Sally for terms and terms! Surely she wasn't going to make that awful Daphne her friend.''
* GreenEyes: Clarissa, and its status as a rare colour is portrayed quite realistically.
* GuiltByCoincidence
* HeterosexualLifePartner: Almost everyone has one.
* HairTriggerTemper: Both the Mam'zelles and Darrell before she learns to control it.
* HugeSchoolgirl: Amanda.
* IAmNotMyFather: [[spoiler: Gwendoline for her mother after she repents and realises how weak she always was.]]
* IHaveBrothers: Bill, the tomboy of the cast, has seven. Alicia has three.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Throughout the series Mary-Lou is shown to be friendly, loyal and honest and even overcomes her extreme shyness and her fears when she thinks that others need her help.
* InstitutionalBullying: Instead of actually punishing them themselves, teachers often tell responsible members of a form that they should "do something" about Student X, commonly sending them to Coventry.
* IrritationIsTheSincerestFormOfFlattery
* LargeHam: Zerelda.
* MakeWayForThePrincess: The "snob" of the novel usually attempts this, often without success.
* ManipulativeBitch: Gwendoline.
* NewTransferStudent: The school gets a few new ones every year. Once because their school burnt down.
* NewYearSameClass: Averted -- although the core cast of characters stays the same, some girls go up a form early or stay behind due to bad results.
* NuclearFamily: Most in the series - this was TheFifties, after all - including the protagonist's.
* OneGenderSchool: The titular Malory Towers, like most schools that show up in Enid Blyton books, is one of these.
* ParentalFavouritism: Darrell's best friend Sally was very scared of this in the first book when her parents had a baby, and believed her parents sent her away to boarding school to get rid of her. [[spoiler: Thankfully, her suspicions proved unfounded.]]
* PennyAmongDiamonds
* PlayingSick: Gwendoline tries this in ''Upper Fourth at Malory Towers'', faking a serious heart condition to get out of difficult end-of-term exams. She successfully fools her mother, her governess and Mam'zelle and is sent home, [[spoiler: but is eventually found out and sent back to school to take exams she didn't bother to study for]].
* PoolScene: In ''Upper Fourth at Malory Towers'' the girls have a midnight picnic by the pool.
* PopularIsDumb: Averted - most popular students are shown as good people, with only one stated to be unintelligent.
* RaisedByGrandparents
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Pretty much every teacher.
* RichInDollarsPoorInSense
* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Betty and Alicia, Darrell and Sally, Mary-Lou and Daphne, Bill and Clarissa (who double up as TomboyAndGirlyGirl). This was quite common in the fifties, although with quotes like this you have to wonder...
--> ''Mary-Lou thought Daphne was lovely. She couldn't help gazing and gazing at her. She would never, never like her as much as she liked Darrell and Sally, of course, but she couldn't help warming to her prettiness and nice manners.''
* RuleOfPool: Students reluctant to swim are frequently pushed in, especially Gwendoline.
* ScholarshipStudent: Ellen.
* SchoolgirlSeries
* SchoolNurse: The Matron also fills this role.
* SchoolPlay: The girls write and produce their own pantomime in ''In The Fifth At Malory Towers''.
* SchoolSwimsuit
* SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack: Pretty much enforced, as the girls live at their school.
* SpiritedYoungLady: Zerelda Brass.
* SpoiledBrat: Gwendoline, and a huge one at that.
* StepfordSmiler, type 1: Zerelda has a lot of problems at school but she seems always happy. She doesn't feel happy on the inside though.
* SternTeacher
* StickyFingers: [[spoiler:Daphne, and (mistakenly) Ellen.]]
* TakeMyHand: Twice! Firstly, in ''Second Form at Malory Towers'' [[spoiler: Mary-Lou falls off a cliff and needs to be rescued like this]], and then in ''Last Term at Malory Towers'' [[spoiler: overconfident swimmer Amanda nearly drowns and we hear this during her rescue]].
* TallDarkAndSnarky: Alicia is this, sometimes bordering on JerkAss.
* [[TeachersPet Teacher's Pet]]: Various. Daphne manages it very successfully by turning on the charm with Mam'zelle Dupont.
* TeenGenius: Irene at music and maths (if nothing else), Belinda at art and Mavis at singing.
* TheGlassesGottaGo: Clarissa.
* TheQuietOne: Mary-Lou
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Bill and Clarissa; although Clarissa's not ''that'' girly. She does have long hair and is generally beautiful though.
* TomboyishName: Bill. It's short for Wilhelmina, but almost nobody calls her that. Unusual in that she never faces criticism for her boyish ways or people trying to make her change.
* TrueColours
* WeatherReportNarration: Fairly frequent at the start of chapters.
* WritingLines: Happens quite often. Occasionally, if the punishment was deemed undeserved by the other girls they help do it together.
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[[caption-width-right:350:The old book covers compared to the new ones.]]
''Malory Towers'' is a series of six novels by British children's author Enid Blyton, featuring the fictional Cornish seaside boarding school of the same name. Though the originals were written from 1946 to 1951, the series OutlivedItsCreator - in 2009 six more books were added to the series by author Pamela Cox, who has also made additions to Blyton's series ''[[StClares St Clare's]]''.
The series follows the heroine, [[GenderBlenderName Darrell Rivers]], from her first year at Malory Towers to when she leaves. Other characters include Sally Hope, Darrell's level-headed best friend; Felicity Rivers, Darrell's younger sister; Gwendoline Mary Lacey, the form's spoilt martyr; Alicia Johns, who is sharp tongued, competitive and intelligent; Mary-Lou, small and timid, but very kind hearted; Irene, scatterbrained music and maths genius; Belinda, scatterbrained artistic genius; Jean, shrewd and straightforward, and Wilhelmina (Bill), completely horse-mad.
The characters are very similar to those in the ''[[StClares St Clare's]]'' series.
The series is believed to be semi-autobiographical, and the name "Darrell Rivers" is clearly drawn from Blyton's second husband's name, Kenneth Darrell Waters. It is also widely supposed that Blyton based the creation on the famous Scottish boarding school St Leonards School in St Andrews, which is, of course, the heroine’s University destination.
A lot of information on the series can be found [[http://www.enidblyton.net/malory-towers here]].
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!Contains examples of:
* AllsWellThatEndsWell: The end of every book, pretty much.
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Averted - Connie and Ruth are fraternal twins, with Connie being physically larger, stronger and plumper than her twin with straight hair, wheras Ruth is smaller and skinnier with wavy hair.
* AlphaBitch: Gwendoline, sometimes.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Bridget to Moira.
* ApronMatron: Their school's plump, strict but fair, motherly matron.
* BackToSchool: The start of every book.
* BeautifulAllAlong: Clarissa, once she [[TheGlassesGottaGo takes off her glasses]] and gets her braces removed is revealed to be strikingly beautiful instead of just "plain" as she was considered before.
* BlatantLies: All of Gwen's boasting is seen as this by all other characters, except her mother, her governess and whichever gullible new kid is following her round this term.
* BoardingSchool: The titular school.
* BookDumb
* BrilliantButLazy: Alicia, and Belinda at first.
* BritishAccents: Including Jean's Scottish accent.
* BritishWeather
* CatchYourDeathOfCold:
* CatholicSchoolGirlsRule: Not Catholic, no, but near-constantly uniformed since they live at the school.
* CharacterDevelopment: Almost every girl in the school learns a valuable lesson at some point and begins to change.
* CharacterFocus: Generally, the first few chapters have quite a bit of this for each new girl to allow the reader to get to know them all.
* ChasteTeens: Enforced, as it's a traditional [[TheForties Forties]]/[[TheFifties Fifties]] British [[OneGenderSchool single-sex]] BoardingSchool.
* CheatersNeverProsper
* ClearTheirName: Happens several times, e.g. when [[spoiler: Ellen is wrongly accused of stealing in ''Second Form at Malory Towers'']].
* ClingyJealousGirl: In this first few books, this is Sally's flaw.
* CloudCuckoolandersMinder
* ComingOfAgeStory: Speaking about the whole series, yes.
* ConspicuousConsumption
* CorporalPunishment: Edited out in more recent versions. Alicia reminding her annoying cousin of how she was "spanked with a hairbrush" over the summer is changed to her reminding her she was "scolded".
* CostumePorn: Some of the outfits made for the school play are stated to count as a combination of this and GorgeousPeriodDress made by a talented schoolgirl seamstress aided by legions of lower-formers.
* DeadpanSnarker: Alicia ever so much.
* DivideAndConquer: When rivalries over who is whose best friend get to a head.
* DontSplitUsUp: The twins Connie and Ruth, at least at first. However, when it is discovered that she is cheating with all her classes by copying Ruth, Connie is kept behind a year and Ruth discovers she actually likes not always being in her shadow.
* DreadfulMusician
* DumbBlonde: [[InsistentTerminology Gwendoline ''Mary'']]Lacey and Maureen
* DysfunctionalFamily: Quite a sad one actually. Gwendoline's mother is an ignorant airhead who, together with her old governess, spoils Gwendoline completely while her father tries to stop this (which results in much tears and screaming) and is often disappointed by his daughter's actions. In turn Gwendoline acts offended and coldly towards him. She seems to have a moment of MyGodWhatHaveIDone near the end when her father [[spoiler:nearly dies]]though.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment
* ExtremeDoormat: Catherine and Ruth. Mary-Lou initially, but she got better.
** Emily and Violet too, since they seem to have no personality.
* FatGirl: Gwendoline and Maureen. May also count as HollywoodPudgy due to differing standards back then (everyone was skinny in the wake of rationing!), or maybe it's just hilariously inaccurate drawing from whoever illustrated the Dragon books.
* {{Flanderization}}: Gwendoline starts off as a SpoiledBrat but becomes a ManipulativeBitch.
* FoodPorn: If written descriptions of dinners and midnight feasts count.
* FrenchMaid: Mary-Lou speaks excellent French because her family employed one in the holidays.
* FunnyForeigner: Their French mistress.
* GiftedlyBad
* GreenEyedMonster: Sometimes the girls can get rather... possessive over each other.
--> ''Darrell...didn't like to see the faithful Mary-Lou sitting so long with somebody else. Why, Mary-Lou had tagged along behind Darrell and Sally for terms and terms! Surely she wasn't going to make that awful Daphne her friend.''
* GreenEyes: Clarissa, and its status as a rare colour is portrayed quite realistically.
* GuiltByCoincidence
* HeterosexualLifePartner: Almost everyone has one.
* HairTriggerTemper: Both the Mam'zelles and Darrell before she learns to control it.
* HugeSchoolgirl: Amanda.
* IAmNotMyFather: [[spoiler: Gwendoline for her mother after she repents and realises how weak she always was.]]
* IHaveBrothers: Bill, the tomboy of the cast, has seven. Alicia has three.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Throughout the series Mary-Lou is shown to be friendly, loyal and honest and even overcomes her extreme shyness and her fears when she thinks that others need her help.
* InstitutionalBullying: Instead of actually punishing them themselves, teachers often tell responsible members of a form that they should "do something" about Student X, commonly sending them to Coventry.
* IrritationIsTheSincerestFormOfFlattery
* LargeHam: Zerelda.
* MakeWayForThePrincess: The "snob" of the novel usually attempts this, often without success.
* ManipulativeBitch: Gwendoline.
* NewTransferStudent: The school gets a few new ones every year. Once because their school burnt down.
* NewYearSameClass: Averted -- although the core cast of characters stays the same, some girls go up a form early or stay behind due to bad results.
* NuclearFamily: Most in the series - this was TheFifties, after all - including the protagonist's.
* OneGenderSchool: The titular Malory Towers, like most schools that show up in Enid Blyton books, is one of these.
* ParentalFavouritism: Darrell's best friend Sally was very scared of this in the first book when her parents had a baby, and believed her parents sent her away to boarding school to get rid of her. [[spoiler: Thankfully, her suspicions proved unfounded.]]
* PennyAmongDiamonds
* PlayingSick: Gwendoline tries this in ''Upper Fourth at Malory Towers'', faking a serious heart condition to get out of difficult end-of-term exams. She successfully fools her mother, her governess and Mam'zelle and is sent home, [[spoiler: but is eventually found out and sent back to school to take exams she didn't bother to study for]].
* PoolScene: In ''Upper Fourth at Malory Towers'' the girls have a midnight picnic by the pool.
* PopularIsDumb: Averted - most popular students are shown as good people, with only one stated to be unintelligent.
* RaisedByGrandparents
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Pretty much every teacher.
* RichInDollarsPoorInSense
* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Betty and Alicia, Darrell and Sally, Mary-Lou and Daphne, Bill and Clarissa (who double up as TomboyAndGirlyGirl). This was quite common in the fifties, although with quotes like this you have to wonder...
--> ''Mary-Lou thought Daphne was lovely. She couldn't help gazing and gazing at her. She would never, never like her as much as she liked Darrell and Sally, of course, but she couldn't help warming to her prettiness and nice manners.''
* RuleOfPool: Students reluctant to swim are frequently pushed in, especially Gwendoline.
* ScholarshipStudent: Ellen.
* SchoolgirlSeries
* SchoolNurse: The Matron also fills this role.
* SchoolPlay: The girls write and produce their own pantomime in ''In The Fifth At Malory Towers''.
* SchoolSwimsuit
* SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack: Pretty much enforced, as the girls live at their school.
* SpiritedYoungLady: Zerelda Brass.
* SpoiledBrat: Gwendoline, and a huge one at that.
* StepfordSmiler, type 1: Zerelda has a lot of problems at school but she seems always happy. She doesn't feel happy on the inside though.
* SternTeacher
* StickyFingers: [[spoiler:Daphne, and (mistakenly) Ellen.]]
* TakeMyHand: Twice! Firstly, in ''Second Form at Malory Towers'' [[spoiler: Mary-Lou falls off a cliff and needs to be rescued like this]], and then in ''Last Term at Malory Towers'' [[spoiler: overconfident swimmer Amanda nearly drowns and we hear this during her rescue]].
* TallDarkAndSnarky: Alicia is this, sometimes bordering on JerkAss.
* [[TeachersPet Teacher's Pet]]: Various. Daphne manages it very successfully by turning on the charm with Mam'zelle Dupont.
* TeenGenius: Irene at music and maths (if nothing else), Belinda at art and Mavis at singing.
* TheGlassesGottaGo: Clarissa.
* TheQuietOne: Mary-Lou
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Bill and Clarissa; although Clarissa's not ''that'' girly. She does have long hair and is generally beautiful though.
* TomboyishName: Bill. It's short for Wilhelmina, but almost nobody calls her that. Unusual in that she never faces criticism for her boyish ways or people trying to make her change.
* TrueColours
* WeatherReportNarration: Fairly frequent at the start of chapters.
* WritingLines: Happens quite often. Occasionally, if the punishment was deemed undeserved by the other girls they help do it together.
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