"Monitress Merle" is a novel written by Angela Brazil and first published in 1914. The book is a story about a young girl named Lucy Merle who is sent to a boarding school in England after her father's death. The book begins with Lucy's arrival at the school, where she is introduced to the headmistress, teachers, and other students. As she settles into her new life, she finds herself drawn to the school's gardening club and the outdoors, which helps her adjust to her new environment. Throughout the story, Lucy encounters various challenges, including dealing with a group of bullies who try to sabotage the gardening club's efforts and uncovering a mystery about a missing family heirloom. Lucy and her friends work together to overcome these challenges and solve the mystery. What kind of challenges do they face? How will Lucy face these challenges? To read an amazing angle of friendship, readers should go through this book that also explores themes of friendship, loyalty, and the importance of perseverance in the face of adversity.
Angela Brazil was born on November 30, 1868, and died on March 13, 1947. She was one of the first British writers of "modern schoolgirls' stories," which were written from the point of view of the characters and were meant more for entertainment than to teach morals. Brazil first started writing when she was 10 years old. She and her close childhood friend Leila Langdale made a magazine based on the children's magazine Little Folks, which Brazil loved at the time. There were riddles, short stories, and poems in the "publications'' of the two girls. In their magazines, both girls wrote serials. Brazil's was called "Prince Azib." Brazil wrote Little Folks later in life. She didn't start writing until later in life when she became very interested in Welsh mythology. Angela Brazil is thought to be the first author of girls' school stories who wrote from the student's point of view and whose stories were mostly meant to entertain rather than teach moral lessons.
