I think my fascination for Elizabeth is mostly because the books didn’t try to moralise her naughtiness. Blyton uses Elizabeth to explore the idea that you could be naughty and kind, hot-headed and brave, troublesome and clever. It didn’t need to be an either-or situation – you could be both, and still be appreciated.

Though The Naughtiest Girl series was the first set of school stories written and published by Blyton, it shared similar character tropes and plot points with Blyton’s other two school series – St. Clare’s and Malory Towers. All three had an intelligent student with a don’t-care attitude, a musical genius, students studying similar subjects and engaging in similar extracurriculars. There were even similarities in the problems faced by the students in the different series. For example, Sally, one of the characters in Malory Towers, spends the first term worried that her mother doesn’t love her, much like Joan in The Naughtiest Girl. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2020-07-26 11:03:20 Associated-names Blyton, Enid. Naughtiest girl again; Blyton, Enid. Naughtiest girl is a monitor; Blyton, Enid. Here's the naughtiest girl Boxid IA1888113 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Susan - Joan's friend and the girl who took Elizabeth's place as a monitor when she was stripped off the position in the middle of a term

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Yes, there are traits that Elizabeth shares with characters from Malory Towers and St. Clare’s. Her manner of playing practical jokes is reminiscent of the ones played by Janet (from St. Clare’s) and Alicia (from Malory Towers), her hot-headed nature reminds me of Darrell, and her obstinacy is on the same level as the O’Sullivan twins. And yet, Elizabeth stands out as a more vibrant character for me. Her hot-headed and kind-hearted nature is balanced by a clever mind, which I find more interesting than any of the other characters created by Blyton. Kerry Dane - A famous actress who came to Whyteleafe and was cured of her bad ways when she left to continue her acting career after her birthday Spoilt, defiant Elizabeth Allen is furious when her parents decide to send her away to boarding-school. She makes up her mind to be thoroughly rude and disobedient, determined to be expelled by half-term.

These issues simply don’t turn up in Whyteleafe. The children respect their monitors and make it a point to go to them for help and advice. In The Naughtiest Girl Is A Monitor, Rosemary, a student, goes to Elizabeth, the monitor, when she loses her money, while another student, Kathleen, makes it a point to inform Arabella, a new student, that she has to respect the monitors since they were chosen because the others liked and admired them. This level of accountability also makes the students more independent, responsible, kind, and better at solving problems. Like Richard, John Terry is also a one sided boy, devoted to gardening and little else. Elizabeth and John have a very good relationship early in the book. John is fond of gardening, due to his and Elizabeth′s common interest in gardening, they become good friends, Elizabeth helping John with his gardening.

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The third book in The Naughtiest Girl series, The Naughtiest Girl is a Monitor, was released in 1945. It again continues Elizabeth Allen’s story at Whyteleafe, and how she is maturing during her time there. The fourth and final book in the series, Here’s The Naughtiest Girl, was released in 1952, seven years after the release of The Naughtiest Girl is a Monitor, wraps up the story of Elizabeth Allen’s time at Whytleafe. Elizabeth begins to enjoy life at Whyteleafe, despite her best efforts to hate everything. She even makes friends with "the Mouse", Joan Townsend — though Joan feels that having the Bold Bad Girl as a friend is "rather like being friends with a thunderstorm! You never quite knew what Elizabeth was going to do next." But it was the student government body of Whyteleafe that entranced me the most. The kind of independence given to the students was amazing to read about – the students got to vote for their representatives who’d then take all kinds of decisions together. While teachers were present during the meetings, the proceedings were left to the students, with the former only stepping in for matters beyond the scope of the students. Even when a student got caught cheating and was assigned extra time with his teacher, the report of his progress got sent to the Head Boy who then read it out to the whole school. There are about 33 editions of the first book in Naughtiest Girl series. The first edition of the first book was originally published in 1940, titled The Naughtiest Girl in the School; and this book is classified under the juvenile literature (particularly school stories), fiction (especially comic novel sub-genre) , classics, academic, young adult, and European literature genres.