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Searle's St Trinian's was based on two private girls' schools in Cambridge – Perse School for Girls, now known as the co-educational Stephen Perse Foundation, and St Mary's School for girls, a Catholic school established by the Sisters of Mary Ward.
Mar 31, 2022 · Ronald Searle’s iconic comic strip, which depicted scenes of mayhem from Joyce Grenfell and co. far removed from the inward institutions often described in literature, took its name from an Edinburgh school which experimented with educational methods considered groundbreaking for the time.
Searle's St Trinian's was based on two private girls' schools in Cambridge – Perse School for Girls, now known as the co-educational Stephen Perse Foundation, and St Mary's School for girls, a Catholic school established by the Sisters of Mary Ward. Growing up in Cambridge, Searle regularly saw the girls on their way to and from school; they ...
A school that inspired Ronald Searle to create St Trinian’s, the girls’ boarding school whose riotous, hockey stick-wielding students have inspired young rebels ever since, is to admit boys for the first time.
He compiled more St Trinian's books, which were based on his sister's school and other girls' schools in Cambridge. He collaborated with Geoffrey Willans on the Molesworth books ( Down With Skool! , 1953, and How to be Topp , 1954), and with Alex Atkinson on travel books.
Jan 11, 2012 · The first full-blown St Trinian’s cartoon in Lilliput came after his release from Changi and was based on a real school (now defunct), St Trinean’s, in Edinburgh, which Searle had heard of when he was posted to Scotland during the phoney war.
Nov 2, 2001 · IT is 60 years since the scratchy yet voluptuous form of a schoolgirl from St Trinian’s first appeared in print. But the anniversary of the unruly creation is unlikely to be celebrated by the artist. Ronald Searle, 80 last year, had had enough of the girls of St Trinian’s by 1953.
