![]() ![]() She is said to have been firm with publishers and to have earned more from her books than many of her contemporaries. Hill was then obliged to stop writing by ill health. She eventually wrote a total of 40 children's books, as well as La Sylphide, a commissioned biography of the dancer Marie Taglioni and two romances for adults, published in 1978. ![]() When Vicki left home to be a ballet student at Sadler's Wells in London, Hill missed her and began to write her Dream of Sadler's Wells series. They were followed by the Patience series and several others. ![]() These began to be published in London in 1948. The result was a series of eight books about Marjorie & Co, illustrated by author herself. Hill's career as an author began when her daughter Vicki (Shirley Victorine), then about ten years old, found a story her mother had written as a child and asked for more about its characters. ![]()
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