List of fictional schools

This is a list of fictional schools as portrayed in various media.

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St Trinnean's Academy for Young Ladies was one of the real-life inspirations for the fictional girls' school of St Trinian's

The squalid Dotheboys Hall in Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby was inspired by a real school in Bowes.[1]

Literature

Main articles: School and university in literature, School story, and Campus novel

• Chalet School, in books by Elinor Brent-Dyer
• Greyfriars School, in books by Charles Hamilton writing as Frank Richards
• The Little Female Academy, in Sarah Fielding's 1754 book.[2]
• Lowood Institution, in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
• Malory Towers, in books by Enid Blyton
• Miskatonic University
• St Trinian's School, in comic books by Ronald Searle and later films

Television

Main article: List of television series about school

• Ackley Bridge College in Channel 4's television drama series, Ackley Bridge, set in the fictional Yorkshire mill town of Ackley Bridge[3]
• Grange Hill School in BBC's television drama series, Grange Hill, set in the fictional North London borough of Northam[4]

Others

• Starfleet Academy, located in San Francisco, California in the fictional Star Trek universe.

See also

• List of fictional magic schools
• List of fictional British and Irish universities

References

Citations

1. Photographic reproduction of Dotheboys Hall, Bowes, 1841, British Library, 1841
2. Clark, Beverley Lyon; Shankar, Lavina Dhingra (October 1994), "When Women Tell Tales About School", Studies in Popular Culture: 17–20, JSTOR 23413787
3. Bley Griffiths, Eleanor (25 June 2019). "When is Ackley Bridge on TV? Who's in the cast and what's going to happen?". Radio Times. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
4. "Grange Hill makes Mersey debut". BBC. 28 January 2003. Retrieved 8 September 2019.

Sources

• Alexander H. Pitofsky (2014), American Boarding School Fiction, 1928-1981, McFarland, ISBN 9780786478651
• Nancy G. Rosoff; Stephanie Spencer (2019), British and American School Stories, 1910–1960, Springer, ISBN 9783030059866
• Jeffrey Richards (1988), Happiest Days: The Public Schools in English Fiction, Manchester University Press, ISBN 9780719027758
• Silke Braselmann (2019), The Fictional Dimension of the School Shooting Discourse, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, ISBN 9783110649017
• Jo Keroes (1999), Tales Out of School, SIU Press, ISBN 9780809322381
• L. Spolton (1963), "The Secondary School in Post‐war Fiction", British Journal of Educational Studies, 11 (2): 125–141, doi:10.1080/00071005.1963.9973093