FOCS

FOCS is run by Clarissa Cridland and Ann Mackie-Hunter. In addition to running FOCS, we also own Girls Gone By Publishers, which, among other authors, publishes the books of Elinor Brent-Dyer. Some years ago, Girls Gone By bought the copyright in all of Elinor's books, and this covers the copyright in her characters as well... The Chalet School started its life in Briesau am Tiernsee in the Austrian Tyrol (Pertisau am Achensee in real life) and the books set there were from The School at the Chalet to the first half of The Chalet School in Exile. Many FOCS members have been to Pertisau, and some travel there regularly each year. In 1994 a plaque was put up by Martin Spence on behalf of Friends of the Chalet School, and this now stands in the library in the tourist office... After Germany signed the Anschluss with Austria in 1938, it would have been impossible to keep even a fictional school in Austria. As a result, EBD wrote The Chalet School in Exile, during which, following an..

Also known as: Chalet School, The Chalet School

Primary location: Leominster United Kingdom