An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here She was a schoolmistress with a difference. Proud, cultured, romantic, her ideas were progressive, even shocking. And when she decided to transform a group of young girls under her tutelage into the creme de la creme of Marcia Blaine school, no one could have predicted the outcome. Paperback , 128 pages Published August 26th 1973 by Penguin (first published 1961)