The Honourable Upper Fourth

My Copy Scanned

The Honourable Upper Fourth – Eveline M. Williams

First Published: 1929

 The Honourable Upper Fourth is set in a school called St. Catherine’s.  It is located in Great Britain and this particular story follows the lives of the spoilt and conceited upper fourth girls who are given a shock when new girl Mary Blunt arrives at St. Catherine’s and is placed in their form.  They are downright rude to the poor girl who is nothing but warm and friendly to the hostile girls.  The other girls look down on Mary as she doesn’t have pretty clothes and is rather free as she and her father have just returned from years of living in the Australian bush. 

 A must read for people who enjoy reading school stories.  It’s a perfectly lovely book. To put the book into modern context, think about the first book in the Private series by Kate Brian #1 Private. It’s a bit like that book to some extent. A much older version of that book, after all it was written in 1929.  It is one of those books that I hope won’t be forgotten but in reality it has just about been forgotten as nobody I know has even heard of the book let alone read it.