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Clara Margery Melita Sharp (25 January 1905 – 14 March 1991) was an English writer of 25 novels for adults, 14 children's novels, four plays, two mysteries, and numerous short stories.
Apr 12, 2018 · Sharp, who as a narrator reliably has her Jane Austen moments, comments on the first page of “The Eye of Love”: “Ladies of ambiguous status have by convention hearts of gold, and Miss Diver ...
Mar 14, 1991 · Sharp wrote 26 novels, 14 children's stories, 4 plays, 2 mysteries and many short stories. She is best known for her series of children's books about a little white mouse named Miss Bianca and her companion, Bernard. Two Disney films have been made based on them, called The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under.
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- March 14, 1991
- January 25, 1905
- World War II Years: Cluny Brown and Britannia Mews
- Stage and Film Adaptations of Her Works
- The Rescuers: Introducing Miss Bianca
- Margery Sharp’s Legacy
- Quotes by Margery Sharp
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For a long stretch of the war, Margery worked as an Army Education Lecturer, but continued to write. She produced Cluny Brown and Britannia Mews,which were two of her relatively enduring works in a canon that has been largely forgotten. Though most of her works were on the lighthearted side, the devastating bombing of London featured in Britannia M...
Margery wrote some of her novels from a male perspective, and though her work tended to be lighthearted, it was never cloying. She was adapt at characterization and tight plotting, which made her work a natural fit for film and stage adaptation. In 1940 The Nutmeg Tree was adapted into a Broadway show titled The Lady in Waiting. The same book becam...
Margery originally wrote The Rescuers (1959), the adventures of a mouse named Miss Bianca (the titled heroine of the second novel of the series),for an adult audience, but it quickly became a huge hit as a children’s book. The series continued with with eight more volumes, embellished by the drawings of the popular illustrator Garth Williams. The R...
Margery Sharp died in Aldeburgh, Suffolk in 1991. By the end of the first decade of the 21st century, nearly all of her novels for adults were out of print. In 2016, ten of her adult novels were released in e-book editions. In 1946, The Saturday Review wrote: “It is as natural for Miss Sharp to be witty as for a brook trout to have spots.” Her larg...
“It is the gift of all poets to find the commonplace astonishing, and the astonishing quite natural.” . . . . . . . . . . . “I feel that I have an obligation to write good English.” . . . . . . . . . . . “There is nothing more tedious than a constant round of gaiety.” . . . . . . . . . . . “But truth, that dangerous commodity, has a way of sticking...
Major works Margery Sharp produced some two dozen novels and short story collections for adults. Here’s apartial selection of those that have recently been made available to read, and her most significant. Adult novels 1. The Flowering Thorn(1934) 2. The Nutmeg Tree(1937) 3. Cluny Brown (1944) 4. Britannia Mews (1946) 5. The Gypsy in the Parlour (1...
by Margery Sharp. 3.73 · 75 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 1977 · 10 editions. Bernard, secretary of the Mouse Prisoner's Aid Soc…. Want to Read. Rate it: The Rescuers (The Rescuers, #1), Miss Bianca (The Rescuers, #2), The Turret (The Rescuers, #3), Miss Bianca in the Salt Mines (The Rescuers, #4), Miss B...
Margery Sharp has 69 books on Goodreads with 35536 ratings. Margery Sharp’s most popular book is The Rescuers (The Rescuers, #1).
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Nov 1, 2021 · Margery Sharp (1905-1991) was the best-selling writer, playwright and screenwriter of adult and children’s whimsical fiction who inspired the box office busting Disney film ‘The Rescuers’.
