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While she was considered the plain one of the family, she loved performing in plays she and her sisters put on for charity. Parker, with whom he removed, in the following nov. A naval biographical dictionarystreatfeild, richard. Streatfeild richard, commander, royal navy commonplace book, manuscript, 12 pencil sketches of coastlines including corfu, c. How the bbc was deceived by major richard streatfeilds. Ballet shoes by noel streatfeild ballet boy by anfaney gladwin russian winter. The streatfeilds, streatfields or stretfields are an historic english family from chiddingstone. Her first childrens book was ballet shoes, published by j. In 2009 major richard streatfeild and his men fought for six months against the taliban in sangin, northern helmand. Richard alexander streatfeild 22 june 1866 6 february 1919 was an english musicologist and critic. Mary noel streatfeild obe 24 december 1895 11 september 1986, was an english author. Author of the children on the top floor, wintles wonders, thursdays child, the royal ballet school, apple bough, the fearless.
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