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100 1 _aPlunket, Ierne L.
_q(Ierne Lifford),
_d1885-1970
245 1 0 _aSally Cocksure
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2025-10-24
508 _aAl Haines
520 _a"Sally Cocksure" by Ierne L. Plunket is a school novel written in the early 20th century. It follows clever, headstrong Sally Brendan as her pranks, bravado, and sporting skill collide with the rules and hierarchies of Seascape House, a girls’ boarding school. Themes of pride, popularity, discipline, and risky friendship emerge, especially through Sally’s fascination with the charismatic rebel Trina “Peter” Morrison. The opening of the story shows Sally’s mischief at home—tying a goat in the parish lecture room with a mocking note and sewing her governess’s skirt to the carpet—events that push her mother to send her to Seascape House. On the train she taunts older girls, is bullied, then dramatically escapes along the footboard between carriages, earning equal parts notoriety and censure. At school she tops her class under the approving Miss Castle but becomes unpopular, is sidelined in junior games, then stuns everyone with her bowling and is promoted to the senior practice group. A measles quarantine cancels matches, fraying tempers; a seaside scuffle sees Violet Tremson defend Sally, only for Sally to snap back. Craving attention, Sally courts danger at the cliff “Portholes” and is drawn into Peter’s orbit, cutting afternoon prep to visit Peter’s cousins by car and slipping back over the school wall. Peter browbeats a timid prefect into setting only lines; Sally, eager to please, writes both sets and misses practice. The segment ends with Sally swallowing a public slight from Peter, while Violet bluntly calls Peter out—signaling the costs of Sally’s new allegiance. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cLondon: Oxford University Press, 1929
653 _aConduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aBoarding schools -- England -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aTeenage girls -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aStudents -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aInterpersonal relations -- Juvenile fiction
700 1 _aBrowne, Gordon,
_d1858-1932
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77119
999 _c117841
_d117841