They can begin performing for pay at age twelve, she explains, and despite initial trepidations, Sylvia agrees that the girls will be well served by having a means of income in case Gum never returns from his wandering. Theo convinces her to enroll all three girls in Madame Fidolia’s dance academy, where she teaches, in order to provide them a way to earn their livings when they’re older. Smith (mathematics), who are looking for a quiet place to devote themselves to research.īy the time the housekeeping money Gum has left runs out for good, the boarders have all fallen in love with the house and the girls, and they eagerly step in with solutions when Sylvia is at her wit’s end as to how to keep the house running.
There’s Theo, who teaches dance at a ballet school that is to shape the Fossil girls’ future the Simpsons, a young married couple home from India, sporting a shiny new automobile (the joy of Petrova’s life) and two retired female professors, Dr. Her stopgap solution is to take on some boarders, and a luckier assortment of lodgers cannot be imagined.
Sylvia, middle-aged and growing anxious, is worried about how to keep the house running and pay for the girls’ education. Now six years have passed since anyone heard from Gum, and the money has run out. All the girls really know of him are their origin stories, which loom large in their minds, and in homage to which they have chosen their distinctive surname. He visits infrequently and stays only long enough to drop off his latest collection of fossils or orphaned infants. Gum collected each of them as babies, depositing them in the large house run by his great-niece, Sylvia, and her former nanny, and disappearing again. Pauline, Petrova, and Posy Fossil aren’t sisters by birth they are adopted by an eccentric explorer known to them as as Gum-that is, Great-Uncle Matthew. In Ballet Shoes, we meet our first set of plucky children bound for the stage (whether they like it or not). Her experience in the world of the theater became fodder for the “Shoe” books, her most popular works and the ones for which she is best remembered nowadays. Before that, she worked as an actress for ten years-a somewhat unusual profession for an English vicar’s daughter at that point in time. She had already published a handful of novels for adults by this point, beginning in 1931. So let’s talk, already!īallet Shoes was Noel Streatfeild’s first children’s novel, published in 1937. Finally! I didn’t want to post this while so many of you were unable to load the site.
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