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A Fiddler for the Abbey Kindle Edition

by Elsie Jeanette Oxenham (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 out of 5 stars 34 ratings

This is a story about the Hamlet Club and Abbey friends. The Marigold Queen, Littlejan Fraser, makes a plan to help the Club with its new members, with the aid of Rosalind Kane and her fiddle. Marigold is whisked away by family trouble; the reigning Queen, Jean, is summoned home in a hurry; and the plan seems likely to fail. But need it be given up? Will no one rise to the occasion?

How the Club is rescued—how Rosalind backs up the rather surprising new leader—how the next Queen wins her crown and chooses the Fiddler for her maid—will be found in this story, with much news of the older Abbey girls and their families.’

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  1. Reading age
    8 - 18 years
  2. Print length
    208 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publication date
    October 27, 2022
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0BKT9LQ9B
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ The Elsie Jeanette Oxenham Society/The Abbey Chronicle
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 27, 2022
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 11.9 MB
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
  • Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 8 - 18 years
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 out of 5 stars 34 ratings

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  • Kindle Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars A New Generation of Abbey Queens
    Reviewed in Australia on January 9, 2025
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    An interesting chronicle of the Abbey series ending with the coronation of the 24th queen. A plethora of babies make their appearance to the Hamlet Club from many of the former Queens. Not a suitable book to begin the series with but a cosy tale for those familiar with the development of the saga.
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  • rmsgrey
    5.0 out of 5 stars Another solid entry
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 13, 2024
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    This is book 33 of the 38 book Abbey series, and well into the "second generation" run. Chronologically, it picks up where the previous book left off, but the main plot is (as usual for this episodic series) entirely unrelated. In fact, the plot is much more of a sequel to Margery Meets the Roses, the final book of the Rainbows series that span off from Maidlin to the Rescue (Abbey book 23). When that book left off, three of the four Ladies Kane were looking forward to settled futures, leaving the fourth, Lady Rosalind Atlanta Kane, a music-obsessed teenager, at something of a loose end.

    Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the book's title, Lady Rosalind comes to the Abbey, joining Littlejan and Jansy as the resident schoolgirls (the series is, after all, one of schoolgirl stories, at least so far as the publishers were concerned), and replacing the increasingly frail (in her early 40s!) Margia Lane as fiddler for the Hamlet Club.

    While she holds the title role, Nanta Rose (as Rosalind is known in private) shares main character status with Littlejan and Jansy, with Littlejan, despite no longer being the current Queen, remaining the driving force behind the Hamlet Club, and Jansy finding herself at the center of events through her association with Littlejan, and her family history with the Hamlets.

    There's no major drama or disasters in the story. The worst that happens is when Littlejan and Queen Jean are unexpectedly called away by family emergencies on the eve of a weekend dance school arranged for the Hamlet Club to teach country dances to newer members, so Jansy and Nanta go in to break the news that the weekend will need to be cancelled (Nanta taking her violin as they might as well do a few dances before sending everyone home)... On the other hand, this series is at its best when it's delivering slice-of-life without the melodrama, and this book is a solid example.

    Of potential interest to folk dancers, there is some good teaching in this book, with discussion of some points of style (such as when to start to turn in an 8-bar lead down and back) that aren't as often taught nowadays. Of course, that's partly due to the overly rigid one-true-way school of country dancing that Cecil Sharp and his acolytes propounded (and Oxenham uncritically presented in her stories) having fallen out of favour, but there's some value in being taught basic ideas like how to adjust figures to fit better with the music...

    Overall, it's another solid, if unspectacular, entry in the series.
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Jansy takes centre stage.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 15, 2017
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    I read this book many years ago and I was thrilled to see that it was exactly the same edition with the same illustrations. It must be over 60y years old but is in really good condition. It introduces Rosalind Kane to the Abbey and features Jansy making her mark on the Hamlet Club.
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  • Colin Mitchell
    3.0 out of 5 stars Fills in part of the story Rosamund's husband's relatives
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 1, 2023
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    OK, but one of the lesser Abbey Girl stories.
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  • Margaret
    5.0 out of 5 stars Reprint of earlier era
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 24, 2021
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    Interesting story about days gone by. Good that these 20th century books are being republished
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