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A02_The Abbey Girls

March 29, 2020 By allisonmthompson Leave a Comment

abbey girls

After A01_Girls of the Hamlet Club, Elsie Oxenham published eight books, many dealing with the Camp Fire movement, before returning to Miss Macey’s school and establishing the true beginning of the story of the girls who live in the Abbey of Gracedieu.  A02_The Abbey Girls was published in 1920 but is set two years after Cicely’s story, running from February through May 1916 in “Abbey Time.” There is no mention of the War.  
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Filed Under: Abbey Girls, Elsie J. Oxenham Tagged With: Abbey Girls, Cecil Sharp, Elsie J. Oxenham, English folk dance, May Day, May Queen, Maypole Dancing, Morris Dance

A01_Girls of the Hamlet Club+

March 8, 2020 By allisonmthompson 2 Comments

girlsElsie J. Oxenham’s ninth book, published in October of 1914, is the “origins” story of the Abbey Girls series, and is one of the books that contains the most folk dancing, culminating in a lengthy description of a performance of folk dance and song to honor the first-crowned May Queen of the series. If you are a folk dancer [Read more…]

Filed Under: Abbey Girls Tagged With: Cecil Sharp, Elsie J. Oxenham, English folk dance, May Day, May Queen, Maypole Dancing, Morris Dance

Join me in “Dancing with the Abbey Girls”

January 25, 2020 By allisonmthompson 1 Comment

Flowers, May Queens, pretty girls in brightly-colored, loosely-swinging frocks dancing English folk dances on the green garth of an old Abbey, friendship, babies, and spirituality—this is the world of Elsie J. Oxenham’s Abbey Girl books, published between 1914 and 1959. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Abbey Girls Tagged With: Cecil Sharp, Elsie J. Oxenham, English folk dance, May Day, May Queen

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