![]() ![]() The daughter of a clergyman, Streatfeild and her sisters helped produce children’s plays as church fundraisers and she wrote some of the plays herself. (Jordan, "Childhood") Yet she didn't consider writing as a career until sometime later. Streatfeild seemed interested in writing at an early age she started a class magazine at age 14, writing most of it herself. Streatfeild drew on her own life experiences on the stage in creating Ballet Shoes, a story of three young girls who attend a special school for stage and ballet training and work to help support their struggling family. Grand-Nannie was the model for kindly, loyal, strict and loving Nana of Ballet Shoes. ![]() Raised in a vicarage, Streatfield also visited her grandparents often. Streatfield was the second of five children born to William and Janet Streatfeild. Mary Noel Streatfeild was born December 24, 1895* in Frant, Sussex, England. ![]()
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