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Mary Noel Streatfeild OBE (24 December 1895 –11 September 1986), was an English author, best known for children's books including the "Shoes" books, which were not a series (though some books made references to others). Random House, the U.S. publisher of the 1936 novel Ballet Shoes (1936), published some of Streatfeild's subsequent children's books using the word "Shoes" in their titles, to capitalize on the popularity of Ballet Shoes; thus Circus Shoes (originally called The Circus is Coming), Party Shoes (originally called Party Frock), Skating Shoes (originally called White Boots) and many more. She won the third annual Carnegie Medal for Circus Shoes.^[1] She was a member of the historic Streatfeild family.

Biography

She was born in Sussex, the second of five^[1]^[2] surviving children of William Champion Streatfeild, later the Bishop of Lewes, and Janet Venn. Her life is described in three semi-autobiographical novels: A Vicarage Family, Away from the Vicarage and Beyond the Vicarage. Her elder sister Ruth Gervis illustrated Ballet Shoes. Noel was considered the "plain" sister in her family, but she shone in performances with her sisters for charity. Upon reaching adulthood she sought a career in theatre, and gained ten years of experience as an actress, working for the Charles Doran and Arthur Bourchier companies. Her familiarity with the stage was the basis for many of her popular books for children, which are often about children struggling with careers in the arts.{{citation needed|date=October 2017}}

Her first children's book was Ballet Shoes, published by J. M. Dent in 1936. She recalled, "The story poured off my pen, more or less telling itself ... I distrusted what came easily and so despised the book."^[3] It was a commended runner-up for the inaugural Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best British children's book,^[5] and it launched a successful career in writing for children. For her third book and third "Shoes" novel, The Circus Is Coming (later published as Circus Shoes), she won the 1938 Carnegie Medal.^[1]

Noel Streatfeild was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1983.{{citation needed|date=October 2017}}

Adaptations

Aunt Clara was filmed in 1954 with Margaret Rutherford in the title role.{{citation needed|date=October 2017}}

In 1968 London Weekend Television produced a six-episode serial of The Growing Summer, with Wendy Hiller as Aunt Dymphna. It was filmed in Bantry (Bantry House), in Ahakista and near Kilcrohane on the Sheep's Head Peninsula in County Cork, Republic of Ireland.{{citation needed|date=October 2017}}

Thursday's Child was adapted for television by the BBC in 1972.{{citation needed|date=October 2017}}

Ballet Shoes was made into a 6-episode television series by the BBC in 1975. In 2007 it was made into a feature-length film for BBC One (UK). A Granada production was adapted by the screenwriter Heidi Thomas and starred Emilia Fox as Sylvia Brown, Victoria Wood as Nana, Emma Watson as Pauline Fossil, Yasmin Paige as Petrova Fossil, Lucy Boynton as Posy Fossil and Richard Griffiths as Great Uncle Matthew.

Noel Streatfeild also wrote 12 romance novels under the pen name "Susan Scarlett".^[4]

Allusions in other works

Noel Streatfeild was recommended by Meg Ryan's character in the 1998 film You've Got Mail.

Works discovered posthumously

Two unpublished short stories by Streatfeild are set to be published by Virago Press in November 2018 and mid-2019 after they were discovered by Streatfeild’s nephew, William Streatfeild and Donna Coonan, the editorial director of Virago Press.^[5]

Selected works

Ancestry and descendants

See also

Notes

1. ^{{cite book |title=Beatrix Potter to Harry Potter |last=Eccleshare |first=Julia |year=2002 |publisher=National Portrait Gallery Publications |location=Great Britain |isbn=1-85514-342-9 |page=48 }}
2. ^{{cite web |url = http://www.whitegauntlet.com.au/noelstreatfeild/Life/Childhood.htm | title = Noel Streatfeild's Life: Childhood | author = Harriet Jordan | accessdate = 2009-08-12}}
3. ^Children's Literature: An Illustrated History, New York, Oxford University Press, 1995; p.220.
4. ^Noel Streatfeild: Adult fiction
5. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/books/noel-streatfeild-new-collections-ballet-shoes.html|title=Two New Collections by the Author of ‘Ballet Shoes’ Will Be Published|date=2018-04-25|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-05-31|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}
6. ^¹²(Carnegie Winner 1938) {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305234511/http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/livingarchive/title.php?id=117 |date=5 March 2012 }}. Living Archive: Celebrating the Carnegie and Greenaway Winners. CILIP. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
7. ^¹"Carnegie Medal Award". 2007(?). Curriculum Lab. Elihu Burritt Library. Central Connecticut State University (CCSU). Retrieved 2012-08-22.