Dimsie Goes To School

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**Title** **Dimsie Goes To School**
1929 Oxford University Press Hardcover Edition
Author	Dorita Fairlie Bruce
Illustrator	Wal Paget
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Series	Dimsie
Genre(s)	Children's novel
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Released	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.

Cover of a late 1950s Spring Books edition of Dimsie Goes To School. Click on image to enlarge.

Books by Dorita Fairlie Bruce listed in their Series

Dimsie Series (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)

Nancy Series (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 Series (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 Series (1931-1942)

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

Colmskirk Sequence (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 Series (1956-1961)

Sally Scatterbrain (1956) • Sally Again (1959) • Sally's Summer Term (1961)