Comments on: Noel Streatfeild

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 23:12:38 +0000

In reply to Margin Notes. I was so upset to discover that my version of Movie Shoes was abridged! I want the proper one! Though I'm glad it was only a chapter and a half gone, I'd been envisioning huge swathes of text like somebody abridging The Count of Monte Cristo. :p

By: Margin Notes

Margin Notes — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:01:51 +0000

Hello – lovely to see fellow Noel Streatfeild fans. I’m also trying to get more of her books, but not the abridged paperbacks. Movie Shoes (Painted Garden) was a completely different book with almost a chapter and a half omitted from the paperback.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 16:37:53 +0000

In reply to Judy.

The first is the best one anyway. She’s at her best when she’s writing about children.

I’d love to read the proper version of Movie Shoes, but I don’t want you to risk your copy in the mails, especially if it’s old to begin with. I’m going to see if I can get it from a used bookseller online. If I get it for one of my sisters as a gift, it won’t count as spending money on myself, but I’ll still get to read it. :p

By: Judy

Judy — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 16:29:37 +0000

Fascinated by these chats about one of my favourite authors Noel Streatfield. I can’t get either the second or the third autobiography volume here but love the first.

I have a copy of The Painted Garden (your Movie Shoes). It is rather old and battered paperback, but I could lend it if anyone wants to read it.

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Review: Beyond the Vicarage, Noel Streatfeild « Jenny's Books — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:03:39 +0000

[…] 16, 2010 by Jenny HaHA. A while ago I read the first two volumes of Streatfeild’s slightly-fictionalized autobiography, and I could not get the third one. I […]

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Wrapping up 2009 « Jenny's Books — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:10:41 +0000

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By: Jenny

Jenny — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:23:14 +0000

In reply to Verity. I think that On Tour is the American title of the second book, Away from the Vicarage . And Movie Shoes, if I recall correctly, is The Painted Garden and is one of my favorites even with the (grrrr) abridgements. Apple Bough is our Traveling Shoes - which I'm not even sure I read.

By: Verity

Verity — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:36:42 +0000

I’m intrigued by the title On Tour. As far as I am aware, the autobiographical books (certainly as published in England) were Vicarage Family, Away from the Vicarage and Beyond the Vicarage.

Also, what was Movie Shoes originally published as? Was it Apple Bough??

This website is great on Streatfeild:

http://www.whitegauntlet.com.au/noelstreatfeild/Biog.htm

By: Jenny

Jenny — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:27:46 +0000

In reply to Rachel.

My library’s been culling books like mad in the past few years, but mostly books that they have multiple copies of and nobody ever checks them out. Which means of course I’ve gotten loads of my favorite books from childhood in hardback for about twenty-five cents.

I haven’t read Saplings – I’ll have to look for it when I’m at the bookshop next time!

By: Rachel

Rachel — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:33:09 +0000

I love Noel Streatfeild too, but my library doesn’t have anything by her at all. American libraries seem to be much better at carrying old books. Mine throws books out once they have got the tiniest bit dogeared!

Have you read Saplings? Persephone republished it and it is wonderful, about the disintegration of a family during the war years.