Chalet School

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Name: Chalet School series
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Creator: Elinor Brent Dyer
Date(s): 1925-1970
Medium: books
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
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The Chalet School is a fictional girls' boarding school, the setting of around sixty school story novels by Elinor Brent-Dyer, initially published between 1925 and 1970. The school was initially located in Austria, moved to Guernsey in 1939, following the rise to power of the Nazi Party, then to "Plas Howell", a house on the border of England and Wales, then to the fictional island of St Briavels, off the south-west Welsh coast and finally to Switzerland.

Chalet School fandom

There is a bulletin board for Chalet School fans known as The CBB. Pieces of fanfiction written on this site, no matter what length, are known as drabbles.

Chalet School stories are often requested at Yuletide.

There is also a LiveJournal community for the Chalet School fandom called freudesheim and a fanfiction archive, The Sally Denny Library.