Phoebe Child, born in England, was a student of Dr. Maria Montessori beginning in 1929. She, along with her lifetime companion, Margaret Homfray, worked with Dr. Montessori, travelling with her to Ireland to translate her lectures in teacher training. In 1946, Dr. Montessori worked with Child and Homfray to start the first English teacher training program, the St. Nicholas Training Centre for the Montessori Method of Education. The training scheme offered full-time residence training in two former embassy sites in Princes Gate in London, as well as a correspondence course. Phoebe Child lived in the college with Margaret Homfray for many years and trained thousands of Montessori teachers from all over the world.
IF Phoebe were actually gifted, she would probably know that it is Down Syndrome, NOT Down's Syndrome, it is nauseated, not nauseous, and that Rosemary Kennedy was NOT mentally retarded.
Phoebe never even needed any money, and everyone ran to her rescue, including of course the also very WEALTHY adoptive parents.
Phoebe's first person narrative and wit is wickedly amusing and honest.
Phoebe Turner was not, I think, a very clever child, but she was a loving little girl, and liked to help her mother with the housework and the mending.
Phoebe's father was a gasfitter, and he had been very comfortably off until he fell from a ladder and broke his right arm, and he was not able to work for many months.
Phoebe in after years has said that she was very sad that night when she went to bed, and that she thought about the misery that drink brings and wondered if such a little girl as herself could do anything to keep her father from drinking.
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