The Abbey Girls

by Elsie J. Oxenham

Wycombe School Hamlet Club knew they had made more than one interesting discovery when they visited for the first time beautiful Gracedieu Abbey. Their pretty and efficient red-headed guide was Joan Shirley, a girl of their own age and someone with whom they felt at once that they wanted to be friends. But there is more than one red-head at the Abbey, and when Joan is offered a scholarship for Wycombe School she begs that it be given instead to her talented cousin, Joy.
Joan’s sacrifice is a noble one but rather hard to bear as she listens to Joy’s rapturous accounts of wonderful evenings of morris dancing with the Hamlet Club. However, the future has many surprises in store for both of them, not least of which is the Will of Sir Anthony Abinger - owner of the lovely Gracedieu Abbey and the adjoining Abinger Hall.
(Dustwrapper blurb from Seagull 1953 edition)

My edition: Seagull library 1953 with dustwrapper
Not known in a pictorial boards edition

Not known in a Children’s Press edition

Seagull Library dustwrapper 1953