A Family Failing? Explanatory notes

This article (A Family Failing?) is taken from the New Chalet Club Journal, and is thus written for an audience familiar with, and primarily interested in, Elinor M. Brent-Dyer's long-running Chalet School series. The series consists mainly of boarding school stories for girls and was written from the 1920s to the 1960s.

Len, Mary-Lou, Peggy, Daisy, Gwensi, Beth

pupils at the Chalet School.

Maynard

family closely connected with the Chalet School.

EBD

shorthand for the author Elinor M. Brent-Dyer.

Miss Annersley, Miss Wilson, Matey, Madge Russell

staff at the Chalet School, owner.