Who remembers Mallory Towers?

Question

What were the names of all the characters?

Answer 1

Malory Towers is a fictional Cornish seaside boarding school which features in a series of six novels by British children's author Enid Blyton.

The series follows the heroine 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 Lacy (the form's spoilt martyr), Alicia Johns (sharp tongued, competitive and smart), Mary-Lou (small and timid, but very kind hearted), Irene (scatterbrained musical genius), Belinda (scatterbrained artistic genius), Jean (shrewd and straightforward) and Wilhelmina (Bill) (completely horse-mad). The characters tend to be stereotypes and are very similar to the set of characters in the St Clare's series, which Blyton also wrote.

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.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
Darrell, the main character in the story, begins her career ingloriously: determined to do well and make friends, she falls under the spell of the brilliant but mischievous Alicia Johns, neglecting her schoolwork in favour of fooling around and playing pranks on the staff. The reader is treated to an early exposition of her violent temper (inherited from her father) when she rescues Mary-Lou, a smaller, weaker girl in her form, who is being held under water by the malicious Gwendoline Mary Lacy, and delivers a stinging rebuke to Gwendoline with the flat of her hand. She rebuffs Mary-Lou's attempts to make friends, since she believes Mary-Lou to be feeble and unable to stand up for herself and clashes with fellow new girl Sally Hope, who insists that she is an only child despite written and verbal assurances from Darrell's mother that she has an infant sister. This leads to another altercation, in which a violent shove from Darrell possibly exacerbates Sally's smouldering appendicitis, forcing Darrell's father (a surgeon) to perform an impromptu appendicectomy in the school's sick-bay. The experience of thinking that she has made Sally seriously ill, leads Darrell to a greater determination to conquer her temper. Sally's attitude is revealed as pathological jealousy, which is resolved by her parents leaving her infant sister behind to visit her. Sally and Mary-Lou later stand by Darrell during a malicious episode (orchestrated by Gwendoline) in which Darrell is unjustly accused of spitefully destroying Mary-Lou's fountain pen. The first book ends with Darrell and Sally being firm friends and Mary-Lou an associate.

Darrell's career from this point is smoother, and she eventually covers herself in the personal, scholastic and sporting glory that was originally expected of her: she is head of the fourth form, games captain of the fifth, and head-girl in her final year as well as being a successful lacrosse and tennis player. In all of the books she plays a pivotal role, though she is not always successful in her endeavours and indeed is temporarily stripped of her fourth-form captaincy (she is caught shaking a smaller girl who was threatening to reveal a misdeed of Darrell's out of personal spite), though she gets it back again by resolving a particularly complicated case of sibling rivalry. She is on friendly terms with most of her classmates and even makes her peace with Gwendoline Lacy at the end, when a personal tragedy strikes the vain, selfish class outcast.

At the end of her school career, Darrell is bound for the University of St Andrews.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I remember Mallory Towers and St Claires . Seem to have got the two books mixed - up but I remember them . There was a girl name Arabella in Mallory Towers . She had brassy blond hair, came from a rich family ; thought she was better than the other girls ; the naughty girl's name was Elizabeth . Thee was a girl in this book who was scared of boys.

Answer 4

You spelt it wrong