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She continued with her writing however, sending chapters of the book to her friends back in Colchester, Essex, and finally finished the book when she was 16.
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Pamela Brown knows all about the tensions and triumphs and sheer hard work of life in a repertory company, and this realistic story will delight all young people who are interested in the stage from either side of the footlights.
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She continued with her writing however, sending chapters of the book to her friends back in Colchester, Essex, and finally finished the book when she was 16.
Foreign other persons named Pamela Brown, see Pamela Brown (disambiguation). Pamela Brown was just 13 when she started writing her first book, The Swish of the Curtain, in 1938. A year later, when World World War II broke out, she left Colchester County High School - a selective grammar school for girls, and went to live in Wales with her family.
The Swish of the Curtain tells the story of seven stage-struck children who form an amateur theatre company in a town called Fenchester, Brown"s made-up name for her home town of Colchester.
She herself was passionate about the theatre and, from an early age, put on plays with her friends. She went on to write several sequels to her first book, and other children's novels.
Her career as an actress and television producer provided her with much detail about early television and life in repertory. With her earnings from The Swish of the Curtain, Brown trained as an actress at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Artist
She worked on the professional stage as ‘Mela Brown’, to avoid confusion with another actress of the same name.
Foreign some years, Pamela Brown produced children"s programmes for British Broadcasting Corporation television One of her final television appearances was as a guest on Blue Peter alongside the various young actors and actresses who appeared in the television adaptation of The Swish of the Curtain, including Sarah Greene, who was later to be a Blue Peter presenter.
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