Frederick Ashton retirement in 1963, in the company known successively as the Vic-Wells Ballet, the Sadler's Wells Ballet and the Royal Ballet. He succeeded de Valois as director of the company, serving until his own retirement in 1970. Ashton is widely credited with the creation of a specifically English genre of ballet. Among his best-known works are "Façade" (1931), "Symphonic Variations" (1946), "Cinderella" (1948), "La fille mal gardée" (1960), "Monotones" I and II (1965), "Enigma Variations" (1968) and the feature film ballet "The Tales of Beatrix Potter" (1970). Ashton was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, the fourth of the five children of George
Helen Ashton Also included amongst her fictional works were "Bricks and Mortar" (1932), republished in 2004 by Persephone Books, and "Yeoman's Hospital" (1944), on which the 1951 film "White Corridors" was based. Helen Ashton Helen Rosaline Ashton (18 October 1891 – 27 June 1958) was an Australian novelist, literary biographer and physician. Born in Kensington, London, Helen Ashton was the daughter of Emma Burnie and Arthur Jacob Ashton, KC, Recorder of Manchester. Her brother was Sir Leigh Ashton, director of the Victoria and Albert Museum. She wrote her first novel in 1913, "Pierrot In Town". During World War I, she nursed as