London Children's Ballet

This novel (whose working title was Mistress Mary) was written entirely in the USA. FHB had finished or nearly finished it by April this year, but since she was near her family while writing...

Jane Eyre has been filmed repeatedly for both television and the cinema, as well as being made the subject of musicals, plays, and a ballet performed by the London Children's Ballet in 1997 and 2008...

The story that FHB had told in Sara Crewe; or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's remained in her mind after the publication of that book. She reworked and expanded it over a period of years...

She used her own theatre experience, and the ballet experience of a sister. The book (whose full title was Ballet Shoes, A story of three children on the stage) was illustrated by the author's...