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A trip through EJO
Country
Wales
Updated 152th January, 2015.
This
page is part of
COLLECTING
BOOKS and MAGAZINES, Blue Mountains, Australia
SERVING COLLECTORS SINCE JULY, 1997
Elsie Jeanette Oxenham published 87 books
and numerous short stories for girls during the first half of last century. Most of them
were set in England but a few were set in Wales, Scotland, Switzerland and France. Here
are the places in Wales that we have found so far. We hope you enjoy "visiting"
the places you have read about so often.
The Lleyn Peninsula in Gwynedd, once
Carnavonshire is where most of the Welsh stories are set. Fortunately Elsie didn't rename
her Welsh locations.
SILVIA OF SARN and the GIRL WHO WOULDN'T MAKE
FRIENDS, GIRLS OF GWYNFA, MISTRESS NANCIBELL and parts of ROBINS IN THE ABBEY are set
here. Also many holidays were spent by the younger Abbey girls here, with Robin at
Quellyn.
The locations that appear in RED actually
exist. If you would like to know exactly where each is, go to Multi Media Mapping and enter the name. A
map will usually appear on your screen.
Above, right and below - 4 Views of Criccieth
featured in CONQUEST OF CHRISTINA |
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Bala Lake from the Torment
books |
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Above right and below - 3 views of the Ffestiniog railway that Christina
and her friends travelled on, to visit Davy while he was working at the slate mine. Above
- at Portmadoc; below left at Blaenau. This narrow gauge railway still runs and you will,
(as Elsie tells us through Christina) see much more of the scenery from it than the road.
View of Lleyn Peninsula Lleyn Peninsula from Yr Eifl (The Rivals)
most of the Welsh books are set here.
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Beddgelert where
Christina told the legend of
Gelert in Conquest of Cristina
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Above part of the Lleyn Peninsula and right - South Stack
lighthouse at Holyhead the Brents saw the lights
of this lighthouse the night they arrived in
The Girl Who Wouldn't Make Friends. |
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Llyn Gwynant
Right Porthmadog - Conquest of Cristina |
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View of
Snowdon which features in many of the books. |
Cardigan Bay - Girl who wouldn't make Friends and
Conquest of Christina |
Abersoch - Girls of Gwynfa
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Nefyn or Nevin– Mistress
Nancibell,
Girl who Wouldn't Make Friends
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Llangower - Torment books -
Lake Bala
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Pass of Aberglaslyn Conquest of Cristina
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Cader Idris - Conquest of Christina
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Beddgelert & River Glasyn
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Porthdinllean
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Porthdinllean
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Porthdinllean
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Llewlyn Cottage where Gelert lived
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Two views of Snowdon from
the little railway
Nefyn looking towards Yr
Eifl (the Rivals) Girls of Gwynfa
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Cader Idris
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View from Criccieth Castle
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Bala Lake
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Lleyn Peninsula - Nevin Beach from Porthdinllean
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Narrow road on the side of Boduan near
Nevin, North Wales. If it were unpaved it
would be easy to imagine how Gwyneth
managed to force Robin up the bank to
avoid being run over.
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LOCATIONS
OF EJO BOOKS
Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire -
Cumbria,
Lancashire
& Merseyside - Other Counties
- Overseas - Scotland
- Somerset - Sussex & Surrey
- Wales -
Yorkshire &
Derbyshire
Abbey book memories
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