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Noel Streatfeild (1895–1986)

Auteur de Ballet Shoes

110+ oeuvres 13,737 utilisateurs 251 critiques 37 Favoris
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Œuvres de Noel Streatfeild

Ballet Shoes (1936) 3,463 exemplaires
Wintle's Wonders (1957) 1,282 exemplaires
Curtain Up (1945) 1,197 exemplaires
White Boots (1951) 956 exemplaires
The Painted Garden (1949) 522 exemplaires
The Circus is Coming (1938) 394 exemplaires
Thursday's Child (1970) 392 exemplaires
Apple Bough (1962) 363 exemplaires
Saplings (1945) 337 exemplaires
The Growing Summer (1966) 328 exemplaires
Party Frock (1946) 308 exemplaires
Tennis Shoes (1937) 296 exemplaires
Ballet Shoes for Anna (1972) 273 exemplaires
The Bell Family (1954) 269 exemplaires
A Vicarage Family (1963) 232 exemplaires
When the Siren Wailed (1976) 192 exemplaires
Gemma (1968) 187 exemplaires
Gemma and Sisters (1968) 168 exemplaires
Gemma Alone (1969) 164 exemplaires
Far to Go (1976) 147 exemplaires
New Town (1960) 142 exemplaires
Goodbye Gemma (1969) 136 exemplaires
The Children on the Top Floor (1964) 132 exemplaires
Caldicott Place (1967) 119 exemplaires
The Children of Primrose Lane (1941) 89 exemplaires
The House in Cornwall (1940) 61 exemplaires
Clothes-Pegs (1939) 57 exemplaires
Beyond the Vicarage (1971) 50 exemplaires
The First Book of the Ballet (1953) 48 exemplaires
Murder While You Work (1944) 47 exemplaires
Babbacombe's (1950) 46 exemplaires
The Whicharts (1931) 41 exemplaires
Summer Pudding (1943) 41 exemplaires
Aunt Clara (1952) 41 exemplaires
Poppies for England (1947) 41 exemplaires
Away from the Vicarage (1965) 35 exemplaires
Peter and Paul (1940) 35 exemplaires
The First Book of England (1958) 34 exemplaires
Fearless Treasure (1953) 32 exemplaires
Sally-Ann (1939) 32 exemplaires
Pirouette (1948) 31 exemplaires
Mothering Sunday (1950) 31 exemplaires
Under the Rainbow (1942) 31 exemplaires
Ten Way Street (1940) 31 exemplaires
A Young Person's Guide to Ballet (1853) 30 exemplaires
I Ordered a Table for Six (1942) 30 exemplaires
The Grey Family (1958) 29 exemplaires
Parson's Nine (2014) 28 exemplaires
Love in a Mist (1951) 27 exemplaires
The Man in the Dark (1940) 26 exemplaires
The Winter is Past (1940) 25 exemplaires
Grass in Piccadilly (1947) 23 exemplaires
The Thames, London's river (1964) 23 exemplaires
The Years of Grace (1950) 22 exemplaires
The Boy Pharaoh: Tutankhamen (1900) 21 exemplaires
Judith (1956) 20 exemplaires
Meet the Maitlands (1978) 16 exemplaires
Gran-Nannie (1976) 16 exemplaires
Myra Carroll (1944) 15 exemplaires
By Special Request (1953) — Directeur de publication — 15 exemplaires
The First Book of the Opera (1966) 15 exemplaires
It Pays to be Good (2015) 15 exemplaires
Noel Streatfeild's Holiday Stories (2019) 12 exemplaires
Bertram (1959) 11 exemplaires
Noel Streatfeild's Ballet Annual (1959) 11 exemplaires
Lisa Goes to Russia (1963) 10 exemplaires
Caroline England (1938) 9 exemplaires
Growing Up Gracefully (1955) 8 exemplaires
The Silent Speaker (1961) 8 exemplaires
Shepherdess of Sheep (1935) 7 exemplaires
The Theater Cat (1951) 7 exemplaires
To the Land of Fair Delight Three Victorian Tales of the Imagination (1960) — Directeur de publication — 6 exemplaires
The Royal Ballet School (1959) 6 exemplaires
Look at the Circus (1960) 5 exemplaires
Osbert (1950) 5 exemplaires
Weekend Story Book: An Anthology (1977) 4 exemplaires
Let's Go Coaching (1965) 4 exemplaires
Dennis the Dragon (1939) 3 exemplaires
Old chairs to mend (1966) 3 exemplaires
Luke (2018) 3 exemplaires
Before Confirmation 2 exemplaires
The April baby (1959) 2 exemplaires
Tops and Bottoms 2 exemplaires
Harlequinade 2 exemplaires
The September Baby (1959) 1 exemplaire
Confirmation and After (1963) 1 exemplaire
The November Baby (1959) 1 exemplaire
The August Baby (1959) 1 exemplaire
The February Baby 1 exemplaire
THE CHILDREN'S MATINEE (1934) 1 exemplaire
The May baby (1959) 1 exemplaire
The December Baby 1 exemplaire
various 1 exemplaire

Oeuvres associées

Long Ago When I Was Young (1966) — Introduction — 76 exemplaires
The Illustrated Treasury of Modern Literature for Children (1985) — Contributeur — 64 exemplaires
Chosen for Children (1957) — Contributeur — 5 exemplaires
Mr. Hermit Crab (1929) — Introduction, quelques éditions4 exemplaires
Every Girl's Annual 1952 — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
Girls' Own Book (1959) 3 exemplaires
YOUNG WINTER'S TALES 4. (1973) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
The Children's Own Treasure Book (1947) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires

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Partage des connaissances

Nom légal
Streatfeild, Mary Noel
Autres noms
Scarlett, Susan
Date de naissance
1895-12-24
Date de décès
1986-09-11
Lieu de sépulture
St Mary the Virgin Churchyard Westerham, Kent, England
Sexe
female
Nationalité
Groot-Brittannië
Lieu de naissance
Eastbourne, Sussex, England, UK
Lieu du décès
London, England, UK
Lieux de résidence
Eastbourne, Sussex, England, UK
London, England, UK
Études
Academy of Dramatic Art
St. Leonard's Ladies' College
Professions
writer
actor
novelist
children's book author
biographer
autobiographer
Organisations
PEN
Prix et distinctions
OBE
Courte biographie
zie www.fantasticfiction.co.uk
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Wonderful story, it made my eyes glisten more than I care to admit ❤️
 
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princessponti | 69 autres critiques | Mar 17, 2024 |
Originally published in 1939, Sally-Ann by Susan Scarlett is a light and frothy romance that made for a quick read and reminded me of many 1930s romance movies. Susan Scarlett is the pseudonym that author Noel Streatfeild used to write a series of similar light romances that were very popular during the 1940s and today have been republished by The Furrowed Middlebrow

When a bridesmaid gets ill at a smart society wedding, Ann Lane, the beautician from Maison Pertinax is asked to take her place. After all just a few hours of high society then back to her life, but instead, she meets and all too soon falls in love with the best man, Sir Timothy Munster. Asked to keep quiet about the situation so not to arouse jealous relatives as to why they weren’t chosen to step into the bridesmaid role, Ann conceals her identity but this is a secret that is crying out to be exposed especially by the jealous Cora Bolt who wants Sir Timothy for herself.

A charming escapist read with one serious note that deals with Ann’s sickly younger brother. Although quite frivolous, it is interesting to note the insights into career women and gender roles of the day. I enjoyed my time spent with this book and look forward to reading more from Susan Scarlett and other Furrowed Middlebrow authors.
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DeltaQueen50 | 2 autres critiques | Jan 26, 2024 |
Warm, sweet, and wholesome are just some of the adjectives that apply to Susan Scarlett's (Noel Streatfeild) novels. Streatfeild is probably best known for her children's books (Ballet Shoes, et al) but her lovely, WWII, adult novels must have proved to be the kind of cozy, escapist reads that would have been embraced during wartime. In fact, they are still appealing today, even if they feel a little simplistic in their lack of nuance. Babbacombe's is the second of her novels that I've read and it was as charming as the first.

When the story opens, sweet, naive Beth Carson is graduating from school amidst a shower of compliments and despite wanting to go on and study further, she must take up a job to help her loving family, which lives paycheck to paycheck. Father George, who has worked faithfully at Babbacombe's department store for decades, has secured her a position as a junior assistant in Gowns. As Beth is starting her new job, cousin Dulcie, who is Beth's age, comes to live with the Carsons and she is also found a job at Babbacombe's. But she can't be more different than Beth. Dulcie is scheming, spoiled, and nasty, and her work ethic is non-existent. She causes stress for the family, none more so than when David Babbacombe, the son of the store owner, meets the pretty and natural Beth and continues to show an interest in her, despite her continued assertion that they have no future given their different class situation. Dulcie's machinations threaten everyone's happiness but in the end, good will triumph.

Scarlett gently highlights class difference here and plays into the trope of the cheerful working class. The story is predictable but still delightful for all that. The characters are quite one dimensional with Beth being good through and through and Dulcie being the villain at every turn but somehow this straightforward and uncomplicated rendering works for this easy, undemanding, and heartwarming, if unrealistic, read. It's a winsome book all the way around.
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whitreidtan | 1 autre critique | Jan 24, 2024 |
What a lovely audio book! Set in 1930s England, Ballet Shoes is the story of three girls adopted by Great Uncle Matthew, known as GUM for short. They choose the surname Fossil because GUM collects fossils and he collected them. Pauline is destined to become an actress, Posey a ballerina, Petrova an airplane pilot. They grow up in a big house filled with boarders because the family needs the rent money for income. They all learn to act and dance so that they can work in the theater and earn extra money to get by.

So this is a story about surviving hard times (there are lots of scenes where they work out how to afford the things they need) and thriving in a non-traditional family setting (the three adopted girls are raised by a nanny, their guardian Sylvia, called "Garney," and the very kind boarders). I especially loved the brusque but always loving Nanny, who was wonderfully performed by the audio book reader.
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LibrarianDest | 69 autres critiques | Jan 3, 2024 |

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Statistiques

Œuvres
110
Aussi par
12
Membres
13,737
Popularité
#1,688
Évaluation
3.9
Critiques
251
ISBN
380
Langues
8
Favoris
37

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