Peepshow

Vivacious fifteen-year-old Angela Borthwick takes the reader on an early 20th century journey through the business of entertainment production.

Having created the Green Meadows Drama Society with her the help of her friends and family, she has a variety of first-hand experience on the matter.

Her witty and intelligent guide covers a range of topics, ranging from play production to conjuring and concert parties.

She prioritises the importance of the imagination, giving a wide range of tips and techniques when it comes to areas such as costume, make up and staging.

Praise for Marguerite Steen

‘Miss Steen is a superb manipulator of scene, and she makes her places as alive as her people’ - Daily Telegraph

‘Rich and enjoyable’ - The Observer

‘fine scenes and piquant portriats’ - The Sunday Times

‘a vivid narrative’ - Manchester Guardian

‘full of colour and character’ - John o' London's Weekly

‘rich, lavish, violent, passionate’ - Evening News

Peepshow is a delightful and informative guide that provides an insight into the experience of childhood in the early 20th century.

Marguerite Steen (12 May 1894 – 4 August 1975) was a British writer. Very much at home among creative people, she wrote biographies of the Terrys, of her friend Hugh Walpole, of the 18th century poet and actress (and sometime mistress to the Prince of Wales) Mary 'Perdita' Robinson, and of her own lover, the artist Sir William Nicholson. Her first major success was Matador (1934), for which she drew on her love of Spain, and of bullfighting. Also a best-seller on both sides of the Atlantic was her massive saga of the slave-trade and Bristol shipping, The Sun Is My Undoing (1941). She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1951.