Female : Children's writer, especially about the Camp Fire Movement. Daughter of novelist John Oxenham

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Southport, Lancashire

Date of Birth : 1880 Date of Death : 1960 Age : 80

Pseudonyms : Pseud of Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley

Collins unless stated otherwise
1907-1910
Goblin Island (1907) - T Heath Robinson
A Princess in Tatters (1908) - Frank Adams
The Conquest of Christina (1909) - G B Foyster
The Girl Who Wouldn't Make Friends (1909 Nelson) - P B Hickling
Mistress Nanciebel (1909 Hodder & Stoughton) - James Durden
A Holiday Queen (1910) - E A Overnell

1911-1915
Rosalie's New School (1913 Chambers) - T J Overnell
Girls of the Hamlet Club (1914 Chambers) - H C Earnshaw. [1st of the Abbey Books]
Schoolgirls and Scouts (1914) - A A Dixon
At School with the Roundheads (1915 Chambers) - H C Earnshaw
Finding Her Family (1915 SPCK)

1916-1920
The Tuck-shop Girl (1916 Chambers) - H C Earnshaw
A School Camp Fire (1917 Chambers) - Percy Tarrant
The School of Ups and Downs (1918 Chambers) - H C Earnshaw
A Go-Ahead Schoolgirl (1919 Chambers) - H C Earnshaw
Expelled From School (1919) - Victor Prout
The Abbey Girls (1920) - A A Dixon
The School Torment (1920 Chambers) - H C Earnshaw
The Twins of Castle Charming (1920 Swarthmore Press)

1921-1925
The Girls of the Abbey School (1921) - Elsie Wood
The Two Form-Captains (1921 Chambers) - Percy Tarrant
The Abbey Girls Go Back to School (1922) - Elsie Wood
The Captain of the Fifth (1922 Chambers) - Percy Tarrant
Patience Joan, Outsider (1922 Cassell)
The Junior Captain (1923 Chambers) - Percy Tarrant
The New Abbey Girls (1923 Chambers) - Elsie Wood
The Abbey Girls Again (1924) - Elsie Wood
The Girls of Gwynfa (1924 Warne)
The School without a Name (1924 Chambers) - Nina K Brisley
'Tickles' or, The School that was Different (1924 Partridge)
The Testing of the Torment (1925 Cassell) - P B Hickling
Ven at Gregory's (1925 Chambers) - Nina K Brisley

1926-1930
The Abbey Girls in Town (1926) - Rosa Pethrick
The Camp Fire Torment (1926 Chambers) - Nina Browne
Queen of the Abbey Girls (1926) - E J Kealey
The Troubles of Tazy (1926 Chambers) - Percy Tarrant
Jen of the Abbey School (1927) - F Meyerheim
Patience and Her Problems (1927 Chambers) - Molly Benatar
Peggy Makes Good ! (1927 Partridge) - H L Bacon
The Abbey Girls Win Through (1928)
The Abbey School (1928)
The Crisis in Camp Keema (1928 Chambers) - Percy Tarrant
Deb at School (1929 Chambers) - Nina K Brisley
The Girls of Rocklands School (1929)
The Abbey Girls at Home (1930) - I Burns
The Abbey Girls Play Up (1930)
Dorothy's Dilemma (1930 Chambers) - Nina K Brisley
The Second Term at Rocklands (1930)

1931-1935
The Abbey Girls on Trial (1931)
Peggy Perfect Goes to School (1931 Amalgamated Press)
Deb of Sea House (1931 Chambers) - Nina K Brisley
The Third Term at Rocklands (1931)
Biddy's Secret (1932 Chambers)
The Camp Mystery (1932)
The Girls of Squirrel House (1932)
The Reformation of Jinty (1933 Chambers) - Rene Cloke
Rosamund's Victory (1933 Harrap)
The Call of the Abbey School (1934)
Jinty's Patrol (1934 Newnes)
Maidlin to the Rescue (1934 Chambers) - Rene Cloke
Joy's New Adventure (1935 Chambers) - Rene Cloke

1936-1940
Peggy and the Brotherhood (1936 RTS)
Rosamund's Tuck Shop (1937 RTS)
Sylvia of Sarn (1937 Warne)
Damaris at Dorothy's (1937 Sheldon Press)
Maidlin Bears the Torch (1937 RTS)
Schooldays at the Abbey (1938)
Rosamund's Castle (1938 RTS)
Secrets of the Abbey (1939) - Heade
Stowaways in the Abbey (1940) - Heade
Damaris Dances (1940 OUP) - Margaret Horder
Patch and a Pawn (1940 Warne)

1941-1945
Adventure for Two (1941 OUP) - Margaret Horder
Jandy Mac Comes Back (1941) - Heade
Pernel Wins (1942 Muller) - Margaret Horder
Maid of the Abbey (1943) - Heade
Elsa Puts Things Right (1944 Muller) - Margaret Horder
Two Joans at the Abbey (1945) - Margaret Horder
Daring Doranne (1945 Muller) - Margaret Horder

1946-1950
An Abbey Champion (1946 Muller) - Margaret Horder
Robins in the Abbey (1947) - Margaret Horder
The Secrets of Vairey (1947 Muller) - Margaret Horder
Margery Meets the Roses (1947 Lutterworth Press)
A Fiddler for the Abbey (1948 Muller) - Margaret Horder
Guardians of the Abbey (1950 Muller) - Margaret Horder
Schoolgirl Jen at the Abbey (1950)

After 1951
Selma at the Abbey (1952)
Rachel in the Abbey (1952 Muller) - M D Neilson
A Dancer from the Abbey (1953)
The Song of the Abbey (1954)
New Girls at Wood End (1957 Blackie)
Tomboys at the Abbey (1957) - Frank Varty
Two Queens at the Abbey (1959)
Strangers at the Abbey (1963)
A Divided Patrol (1992 Woodfield £12.50)
Deb Leads the Dormitory (1993 Woodfield £15.50)
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"One Good Turn"
(In) Hulton's Girls' Stories Annual (1927 Allied Newspapers)