There is a very small amount of info on our girls school book page at
http://www.penrithcity.nsw.gov.au/usrpages/collect/girls.htm
Sue Sims provided this info so I presume that is all she could find in her
research for the Encyclopaedia. I will check with her to see if she has
anything else.


Barbara Cooper
Check out our website
COLLECTING BOOKS & MAGAZINES
http://www.penrithcity.nsw.gov.au/usrpages/collect/welcome.htm

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> 1. Re: Wanted guidelines - amendment - Biggles on E-List
> From: Opsbooks@...
> 2. Re: Air Heroes + Authors Query
> From: "David Anderson" <nbooks@...>
> 3. Re: Air Heroes + Authors Query
> From: "David Anderson" <nbooks@...>
> 4. Sybil B. Owsley
> From: "David Anderson" <nbooks@...>
> 5. Sort of a Biggles Query
> From: Brent <biggles@...>
> 6. Re: Sybil B. Owsley
> From: "Donna Wenaus" <donna@...>
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 21:45:08 EDT
> From: Opsbooks@...
> Subject: Re: Wanted guidelines - amendment - Biggles on E-List
>
> Yes, we do have a free wanted section.
> However, if you're in need of ONE
> particular book, author or magazine, and
> it's wasn't authored by any of our LISTED
> authors, you can ask for it via the newsletter.
>
> I previously mentioned that the W E Johns List
> was to be discontinued. Well, I've discovered
> that somebody has already established a
> BIGGLES newsletter on E-List. Go to the
> search engine on the logon page, put
> 'Biggles' in it - and you'll find it. - J
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 03:46:56 -0000
> From: "David Anderson" <nbooks@...>
> Subject: Re: Air Heroes + Authors Query
>
> "Jim " <jmackenzie48@y...> wrote:
> > Thanks to the respondents to my list of authors in Message 13
> above.
> > I have added K.M.Peyton and Geoffrey Trease to my list of possibles
> > (Even though their contributions to air stories are likely to be
> > "one-
> > offs").
> > Thanks,
> > Jim.
>
> Hello Jim,
>
> Here are a few that I am aware of:
>
> Jack Heming - The Desert Air Raider
> Jack Heming - The Air Dope Hunters
> Jack Heming - The Air Spies
> John Grant - The Lion of the Frontier
> M.E. Miles - Sea-Plane Base
> Dorothy Carter - Flying Dawn
>
> All of the above were published in the "Air Adventure Series" by A. &
> C. Black, Ltd. in Britain in the early 1930s. Each book contained
> four black and white plates by Alfred Sindall, a very familiar name
> to Biggles collectors. They are big, thick books with attractive
> pictorial dustwrappers.
>
> Best Regards,
> David Anderson
> Narnia Books
> Vancouver, Canada
> http://www.abebooks.com/home/nbks
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 04:04:25 -0000
> From: "David Anderson" <nbooks@...>
> Subject: Re: Air Heroes + Authors Query
>
> > "Jim " <jmackenzie48@y...> wrote:
> > > Thanks to the respondents to my list of authors in Message 13
> > above.
>
> Jim,
>
> Are you also interested in American boys aviation fiction? There
> were several boys aviation series published by Grosset and Dunlap,
> Goldsmith, Whitman and others. The Stratemeyer stable contained
> several writers who produced boys aviation fiction to order. Al
> Avery, Canfield Cook, Eustace L. Adams, Thomson Burtis and the "Ted
> Scott Flying Stories" of Franklin W. Dixon come immediately to mind
> (several of these were "house names"). It is a large collecting area
> in itself.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> David Anderson
> Narnia Books
> Vancouver, Canada
> http://www.abebooks.com/home/nbks
>
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 04:27:25 -0000
> From: "David Anderson" <nbooks@...>
> Subject: Sybil B. Owsley
>
>
> Does anyone here have any information on Sybil B. Owsley, a British
> author of Girl Guides and Brownies books in the 1930s and '40s?
> There is no mention of her in "Twentieth-Century Children's Writers"
> or in Connolly.
>
> I have one of her books, "A Madcap Brownie" (Blackie & Son Limited,
> circa 1940), a most handsome, thick volume in a striking pictorial
> dustwrapper. If anyone here collects her books can they give us a
> summary of this author's life and work?
>
> David Anderson
>
> Narnia Books
> Vancouver, Canada
> http://www.abebooks.com/home/nbks
>
>
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 15:33:14 +1000
> From: Brent <biggles@...>
> Subject: Sort of a Biggles Query
>
> Howdy all, this is a little off topic... so.. my apologies :)
>
> To all the Biggles collectors in the group, or indeed to anyone else as
> the case may be, does anyone here have any contacts or know of someone
> within the De Havilland aircraft company?
>
> Cheers
>
> Brent
>
>
>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 10:38:45 -0400
> From: "Donna Wenaus" <donna@...>
> Subject: Re: Sybil B. Owsley
>
> I am also interested in Sybil. She wrote many school stories.
> Looking back through past copies of FOLLY I found this brief mention:
>
> Sybil Betha Owsley wrote school and Guide stories between 1912 and
> 1940: 24 on her own and 6 in collaboration with other writers,
> including Mrs A.C. Osborn Hann.
>
> Undoubtedly she'll have a mention in the much anticipated,
> soon-to-be-published Encyclopaedia
> of Girls' School Stories (one of the editors is Sue Sims also editor
> of FOLLY). In the meantime I can ask Sue for a list of titles and
> dates.
>
> In the isn't it a small world category, I have been once to
> Vancouver (about 4 years ago now). My daughter and I spent a most
> enjoyable hour in Narnia books. Around the corner was another
> bookstore (not such a memorable name or at least I've forgotten it),
> and to this day my daughter curses we only bought a few ppbk Chalets
> there. He seemed to have a whole bookshelf full of them, and she
> hadn't read her first yet so didn't realize they were to become a
> collecting obsession for her at age 13. To think how cheap we might
> have got them -the ones that got away!
>
> Donna
>
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