List of fictional schools
This is a list of fictional schools as portrayed in various media.
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Literature
- Chalet School, in books by Elinor Brent-Dyer
- Greyfriars School, in books by Charles Hamilton writing as Frank Richards
- The Little Female Academy, in Sarah Fielding's 1754 book.[2]
- Lowood Institution, in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- Malory Towers, in books by Enid Blyton
- Miskatonic University
- St Trinian's School, in comic books by Ronald Searle and later films
Television
- Ackley Bridge College in Channel 4's television drama series, Ackley Bridge, set in the fictional Yorkshire mill town of Ackley Bridge[3]
- Grange Hill School in BBC's television drama series, Grange Hill, set in the fictional North London borough of Northam[4]
Others
- Starfleet Academy, located in San Francisco, California in the fictional Star Trek universe.
See also
References
Citations
- ^ Photographic reproduction of Dotheboys Hall, Bowes, 1841, British Library, 1841
- ^ Clark, Beverley Lyon; Shankar, Lavina Dhingra (October 1994), "When Women Tell Tales About School", Studies in Popular Culture: 17–20, JSTOR 23413787
- ^ Bley Griffiths, Eleanor (25 June 2019). "When is Ackley Bridge on TV? Who's in the cast and what's going to happen?". Radio Times. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- ^ "Grange Hill makes Mersey debut". BBC. 28 January 2003. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
Sources
- Alexander H. Pitofsky (2014), American Boarding School Fiction, 1928-1981, McFarland, ISBN 9780786478651
- Nancy G. Rosoff; Stephanie Spencer (2019), British and American School Stories, 1910–1960, Springer, ISBN 9783030059866
- Jeffrey Richards (1988), Happiest Days: The Public Schools in English Fiction, Manchester University Press, ISBN 9780719027758
- Silke Braselmann (2019), The Fictional Dimension of the School Shooting Discourse, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, ISBN 9783110649017
- Jo Keroes (1999), Tales Out of School, SIU Press, ISBN 9780809322381
- L. Spolton (1963), "The Secondary School in Post‐war Fiction", British Journal of Educational Studies, 11 (2): 125–141, doi:10.1080/00071005.1963.9973093