City Readers Digital Historic Collections at the New York Society Library
Miss Bannister's Girls
Louise Tanner (1922-2000)
Miss Bannister’s Girls
New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1963
I first read Miss Bannister’s Girls in the 70s when the
New York world of a fictional (well, sort of!) private girls
school and the life stories of its various denizens was only
twenty or thirty years in the rear-view mirror. Since then,
as a lifelong New Yorker, I have reread it every five or ten
years, marveling at its acerbic wit, sharp eye for detail,
and hilarious but touching biographies of the “girls.”
It is a great, hidden gem of a New York world that is not
really gone. It is suitable for young adults, but only we
older folk will get all the humorous allusions!
Caroline Berry (member)
Miss Bannister’s Girls
New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1963
I first read Miss Bannister’s Girls in the 70s when the
New York world of a fictional (well, sort of!) private girls
school and the life stories of its various denizens was only
twenty or thirty years in the rear-view mirror. Since then,
as a lifelong New Yorker, I have reread it every five or ten
years, marveling at its acerbic wit, sharp eye for detail,
and hilarious but touching biographies of the “girls.”
It is a great, hidden gem of a New York world that is not
really gone. It is suitable for young adults, but only we
older folk will get all the humorous allusions!
Caroline Berry (member)