![]() ![]() ![]() One of my favourite more modern ballet books is Dance for Two by Jean Ure. Adèle Geras has written a modern series of ballet books. Mabel Esther Allen (as Jean Estoril) wrote eleven books in her Drina series, as well as the Ballet Family books. Noel Streatfeild’s Ballet Shoes (1936) is the enduring stage classic for girls but she didn’t write a series, as others have done. Had you been ten-year-old me and reading Girl comic, you could have followed the weekly adventures of Belle of the Ballet and your Christmas annual would include a colour plate of Margot Fonteyn, a household name. Ballet had a much higher popular profile in the 1950s than it does today. In tandem with those, she wrote another dancing series, Dancing Peel, but it was never as successful. They were later reprinted in paperback and are still popular today. Lorna Hill published fourteen books about the ‘Wells’ between 19. This photo was taken a long time ago, when I was recording my books before moving. ![]()
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