May Baldwin
May Baldwin was a British girls' school story book author.
An international traveller, Baldwin's work was far less nationalistic than that of her contemporaries.
Early life
Born in 1862, in India, where her father - the Rev. John Richard Baldwin - was a chaplain, May Baldwin was one of five children, and was sent to school in Germany. The family returned to England from 1869-1871 and later returned permanently in 1879, when Rev. Baldwin took a living at Dewsbury. May Baldwin trained to be a teacher at Bishop Otter College.Career
Her works include:- A Popular Girl: A Tale of School Life in Germany
- A Plucky Girl; or, The Adventures of 'Miss Nell'
- Sibyl; or, Old School Friends
- The Sunset Rock: A Story for Girls
- That Awful Little Brother
- The Girls of St. Gabriel's; or, Life at a French School
- Peg's Adventures in Paris
- Dora: A High School Girl
- The Follies of Fifi
- Mysie: A Highland Lassie
- Holly House and Ridges Row: A Tale of London Old and New
- Golden Square High School
- Barbara Bellamy: A Public School Girl
- Sarah's School Friend
- Two Schoolgirls of Florence
- A Schoolgirl of Moscow
- The Girls' Eton
- A City Schoolgirl and Her Friends
- Corah's School Chums
- Hilda's Experiences
- A Schoolgirl's Diary: The Story of Her Holiday Beyond the Seas
- Phyllis McPhilemy: A School Story
- Mrs. Manning's Wards
- Irene to the Rescue: The Story of an English Girl's Fight for the Right
- Miss Peter
- Three Pickles in and out of School
- A Schoolgirl of the Blue
- The Twins Make Good