Update to the Grownup School Story List

One of my own happiest discoveries in doing
this list; I've now enjoyed all four of Walsh's
charming Imogen Quy mysteries

At long last, I have managed, based on many wonderful suggestions from readers, to update my Grownup School Story List. I've discovered a few new titles on my own, but most of the changes come from the comments and emails I received from all of you.

A new addition courtesy of
an anonymous commenter

A couple of people who commented with suggestions chose to remain anonymous, so thank you to those Anons (one of whom also recommended the Paul Bailey biography, Three Queer Lives, which I have since very much enjoyed). In addition, warm thanks to Frances, Brian Busby, Barbara from Call Me Madam, Jerri, Gina in Alabama, Foose, Sue in Suffolk, Cassandra Lin, and Jenefer. (And thanks to anyone else I've failed to keep track of but who also made suggestions.) I also, thanks to a heads-up from Jerri, removed a Clara Benson title based on the newly-revealed fact that the author, whoever it might be, is in fact contemporary, not from the 1930s at all. Regardless of the quality of the novels (I have not and will not be sampling them), fraud leaves rather a bad taste in my mouth, so I have chosen not to keep her (if it is even a woman) in the section for more recent titles of interest, and I will also be removing Benson from my main list and my Mystery List.

A new addition to the list courtesy of Brian Busby
(and, truth be told, an image stolen from his blog)

Should any of you (or anyone else) come across additional titles that fit the list, please do let me know.

The updated list is below (the original list is still here). I hope it leads you to additional reading pleasure!

NON-MYSTERIES BY WOMEN
	RUTH ADAM, I'm Not Complaining (1938)
		Depression-era grammar school.
	MABEL ESTHER ALLAN, Here We Go Round (1954)
		Grammar school. Recently reprinted by Girls Gone By.
	VERILY ANDERSON, Daughters of Divinity (1960)
		Memoir. University (?).
	SYLVIA ASHTON-WARNER, Spinster (1959)
		New Zealand. Grammar school.
	MARY BELL, Summer's Day (1951)
		Girls' boarding school.
	FRANCES BELLERBY, Shadowy Bricks (1932)
		Progressive school.
	WINIFRED BLAZEY, Grace Before Meat (1942)
		Village school.
	EDWARD CANDY, Parents' Day (1967)
		Coed boarding school.
	HESTER W. CHAPMAN, Long Division (1943)
		Boys' prep school.
	HESTER W. CHAPMAN, Ever Thine (1951)
		Boys' prep school.
	IVY COMPTON-BURNETT, More Women than Men (1933)
		Girls' boarding school.
	ELIZABETH COXHEAD, A Play Toward (1952)
		Village grammar school.
	CLEMENCE DANE, Regiment of Women (1917)
		Girls' boarding school.
	ANNA DE BARY, Letters of a Schoolma'am (1913)
		Possibly non-fiction? Uncertain of type of school.
	VERA G. DWYER, A War of Girls (1915)
		Australian. Uncertain of type of school.
	MENNA GALLIE, Man's Desiring (1960)
		University. "Comedy of contrasts about a Welsh man and an English woman at a Midlands university."
	RUTH M. GOLDRING, Ann's Year (1933)
		University. "[A] story combining school and business life in its period."
	RUTH M. GOLDRING, Educating Joanna (1935)
		Oxford.
	HELEN HAMILTON, The Iconoclast (1917)
		About a schoolteacher's romance. Uncertain of type of school.
	MARGARET HASSETT, Educating Elizabeth (1937)
		Girls' boarding school.
	MARGARET HASSETT, Beezer's End (1949)
		Girls' boarding school. Sequel to Educating Elizabeth.
	RENÉE HAYNES, Neapolitan Ice (1932)
		Oxford.
	ROSE MARIE HODGSON, Rosy-Fingered Dawn (1934)
		University. Described by Anna Bogen as an "experimental university novel."
	PRISCILLA JOHNSTON, The Narrow World (1930)
		Girls' boarding school.
	PRISCILLA JOHNSTON, Green Girl (1931)
		Girls' boarding school. Sequel to The Narrow World (?).
	BEL KAUFMAN, Up the Down Staircase (1965)
		American. Inner city high school.
	ELIZABETH LAKE, The First Rebellion (1952)
		Girls' convent boarding school.
	MADELEINE L'ENGLE, A Small Rain (1945)
		American. First section set in Swiss boarding school.
	JOAN LINDSAY, Picnic at Hanging Rock (1967)
		Australia. Women's college.
	CHRISTINE LONGFORD, Making Conversation (1931)
		Part girls' boarding school, part Oxford.
	LILIAN VAUX MACKINNON, Miriam of Queen's (1921)
		Canada. University. Set around the turn of the century at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. See Brian Busby's review here.
	ROSEMARY MANNING, The Chinese Garden (1962)
		Girls' boarding school.
	MARGARET MASTERMAN, Gentleman's Daughters (1931)
		Girls' school.
	MARY NICHOLSON, Itself to Please (1953)
		University. Set at Oxford in the 1930s.
	KATE O'BRIEN, The Land of Spices (1941)
		Girls' convent boarding school.
	FRANCES GRAY PATTON, Good Morning, Miss Dove (1954)
		American. Small town grammar school.
	WINIFRED PECK, Winding Ways (1951)
		Girls' boarding school.
	SUSAN PLEYDELL, Summer Term (1959)
		Boys' boarding school.
	SUSAN PLEYDELL, A Young Man's Fancy (1962)
		Boys' boarding school. Sequel to Summer Term.
	HENRY HANDEL RICHARDSON, The Getting of Wisdom (1910)
		Australian. Girls' boarding school.
	DORA SAINT (aka MISS READ), Village School (1955)
		Village grammar school.
	ELEANOR SCOTT, War Among Ladies (1928)
		Girls' high school.
	BARBARA SILVER, Our Young Barbarians, or, Letters from Oxford (1935)
		University. Review describes "faithful chronicling of a fairly ordinary routine."
	MAY SMITH, These Wonderful Rumours!: A Young Schoolteacher's Wartime Diaries 1939-1945 (2012)
		Diary. Elementary school.
	MURIEL SPARK, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)
		Girls' boarding school.
	D. E. STEVENSON, Summerhills (1956)
		In part about setting up a boys' school.
	DOROTHY STRACHEY (aka OLIVIA), Olivia (1949)
		Girls' boarding school in France.
	MARY STURT, Be Gentle to the Young (1937)
		University.
	NETTA SYRETT, A School Year (1902)
		University?
	GERTRUDE WINIFRED TAYLOR, The Pearl (1918)
		University.
	ANGELA THIRKELL, Summer Half (1937)
		Boys' boarding school.
	ANNE TRENEER, A Stranger in the Midlands (1952)
		Memoir. Girls' high school in Birmingham.
	ROSALIND WADE, Children Be Happy (1931)
		University.
	ANTONIA WHITE, Frost in May (1933)
		Girls' convent school.
	MARY WILKES, The Only Door Out (1945)
		University.
	D[OROTHY]. WYNNE WILLSON, Early Closing (1931)
		Boys' boarding school.
MYSTERY NOVELS BY WOMEN
	LOIS AUSTEN-LEIGH, The Incredible Crime (1931)
		University. "[A] witty take on academic life in Cambridge." (Soon to be reprinted by British Library Crime Classics.)
	JOSEPHINE BELL, The Summer School Mystery
		Summer school for music students.
	JOSEPHINE BELL, Death at Half Term (1939)
		Boys' boarding school.
	DOROTHY BOWERS, Fear and Miss Betony (1941)
		Wartime girls' boarding school.
	JANET CAIRD, Murder Scholastic (1967)
		Scottish secondary school.
	AGATHA CHRISTIE, Cat Among the Pigeons (1959)
		Girls' boarding school.
	EILEEN HELEN CLEMENTS, Cherry Harvest (1943)
		Wartime girls' boarding school evacuated to a country manor house.
	AMANDA CROSS, The Theban Mysteries (1971)
		American girls' school.
	ANTONIA FRASER, Quiet as a Nun (1977)
		Girls' convent school.
	MAVIS DORIEL HAY, Death on the Cherwell (1935)
		University.
	P. D. JAMES, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972)
		Cambridge. Only somewhat college-related.
	ELIZABETH LEMARCHAND, Death of an Old Girl (1967)
		Girls' boarding school.
	ELIZABETH LEMARCHAND, The Affacombe Affair (1968)
		Girls' prep school.
	HELEN MCCLOY, Through a Glass Darkly (1949)
		American. Girls' boarding school.
	GLADYS MITCHELL, Death at the Opera (1934)
		Coed day school.
	GLADYS MITCHELL, St. Peter's Finger (1938)
		Girls' convent boarding school.
	GLADYS MITCHELL, Laurels Are Poison (1942)
		Girls' training college.
	GLADYS MITCHELL, Tom Brown’s Body (1949)
		Boys' boarding school.
	GLADYS MITCHELL, Convent on Styx (1975)
		Girls' convent boarding school.
	DOROTHY L. SAYERS, Gaudy Night (1935)
		Oxford.
	NANCY SPAIN, Poison for Teacher (1949)
		Girls' boarding school.
	JOSEPHINE TEY, Miss Pym Disposes (1946)
		Girls' physical training college.
	ETHEL LINA WHITE, The Third Eye (1937)
		First part set in girls' boarding school.
	MARGARET YORKE, series featuring Patrick Grant (1980s)
		Oxford.
MYSTERY NOVELS BY MEN
	NICHOLAS BLAKE, A Question of Proof (1935)
		Boys' boarding school.
	LEO BRUCE, Carolus Deene series
		Boys' boarding school.
	W. J. BURLEY, A Taste of Power (1967)
		Grammar school.
	MILES BURTON, Murder in the Coalhole (1940)
		Grammar school (but no students appear).
	MILES BURTON, Murder Out of School (1951)
		Boys' prep school.
	CHRISTOPHER BUSH, The Case of the Dead Shepherd (1934)
		Coed high school.
	V. C. CLINTON-BADDELEY, Dr. Davie series
		Cambridge.
	EDMUND CRISPIN, Gervase Fen series
		Oxford.
	GLYNN DANIEL, The Cambridge Murders (1945)
		Cambridge (obviously).
	S. F. X. DEAN, Professor Kelly series
		University. New England college.
	D. DEVINE, His Own Appointed Day (1965)
		Scottish high school.
	MICHAEL GILBERT, The Night of the Twelfth (1976)
		Boys' school.
	D. DEVINE, His Own Appointed Day (1965)
		Scottish high school.
	MICHAEL GILBERT, The Night of the Twelfth (1976)
		Boys' school.
	REGINALD HILL, An Advancement of Learning (1971)
		University.
	JAMES HILTON, Murder at School (1931)
		Boys' boarding school. (Author of Lost Horizon.)
	JOHN LE CARRÉ, A Murder of Quality (1962)
		Boys' boarding school.
	NORMAN LONGMATE, A Head for Death (1958)
		Boys' school? Coed?
	J. C. MASTERMAN, An Oxford Tragedy (1933)
		Oxford.
	KENNETH MILLAR (aka ROSS MACDONALD), The Dark Tunnel (1944)
		American. University. See Brian Busby's review here.
	SIMON OKE, The Hippopotamus Takes Wing (1952)
		Convent school.
	STUART PALMER, Hildegarde Withers series
		Withers is a schoolteacher, but books feature few scenes in school
	Q PATRICK, Death Goes to School (1936)
		Boys' school.
	IVAN ROSS, Teacher's Blood (1964)
		American high school.
	ERIC SHEPHERD, Murder in a Nunnery (1940)
		Convent school.
	ERIC SHEPHERD, More Murder in a Nunnery (1954)
		Convent school.
TOO LATE BUT POTENTIALLY OF INTEREST
	EVE BUNTING, Spying on Miss Muller (1995)
		General fiction/thriller. Belfast girls' boarding school during WWII.
	SARAH CAUDWELL, Hilary Tamar series (1980s)
		Mystery. Law school
	PAMELA DEAN, Tam Lin (1991)
		Fantasy. University. Combines a young woman's life at college with a retelling of the traditional Scottish fairy ballad "Tam Lin".
	RUTH DUDLEY EDWARDS, Matricide at St. Martha's (1994)
		Mystery. Cambridge. One of Edwards' Robert Amiss mysteries, this time in a university setting.
	BETH GUTCHEON, The New Girls (1979)
		General fiction. American girls' prep school in the 1960s.
	JOANNE HARRIS, Gentlemen and Players (2005)
		Mystery. Boys' boarding school.
	HAZEL HOLT, The Cruellest Month (1991)
		Mystery. Oxford.
	HAZEL HOLT, Murder on Campus (1994, aka Mrs. Malory: Detective in Residence)
		Mystery. American university.
	RONA JAFFE, Class Reunion
		General fiction. University. Brain candy partly set at Radcliffe in the 1950s.
	ANGELA LAMBERT, No Talking After Lights (1990)
		Girls' boarding school. Semi-autobiographical novel based on Lambert's own unhappy school days.
	ARTHUR MARSHALL, Girls Will Be Girls (1974)
		Perhaps not strictly fitting this list, but definitely of interest. This is a compilation of Marshall's humorous writings about school stories.
	CLARE MORRALL, After the Bombing (2014)
		General fiction. Girls' school. Set partly in 1942 and partly in 1963. Reviewed by Call Me Madam here.
	ROBIN STEVENS, Wells & Wong mysteries (2013-present)
		Mystery series set in a 1930s girls' boarding school, featuring two schoolgirl detectives.
	DONNA TARTT, The Secret History (1992)
		Bestselling thriller set at a posh Vermont college.
	JILL PATON WALSH, Lapsing (1986)
		Early non-mystery by Walsh, about a young undergraduate at Oxford in the 1950s, whose romantic travails lead her into a crisis of faith.
	JILL PATON WALSH, Imogen Quy mysteries (1993-2007)
		Series of four smart, cozy, Mrs. Malory-esque mysteries whose main character is a nurse at a Cambridge college.
	JILL PATON WALSH, The Late Scholar (2013)
		One of Walsh's new mysteries featuring Dorothy Sayers' Peter Wimsey; this one takes place primarily at Oxford
	JACQUELINE WINSPEAR, A Lesson in Secrets (2011)
		Mystery. Cambridge. One of Winspear's Maisie Dobbs mysteries.