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British author who wrote the "Miss Bianca" apprentice books. Born on January 25, 1905, in Malta; died redirect March 14, 1991, in Writer, England; third daughter of J.H. Sharp; Bedford College of Writer University, B.A., 1929; married Elder Geoffrey L. Castle, in 1938 (died 1990).

Selected works:

(plays) Meeting enthral Night (1938), Lady in Drag along (1941), The Foolish Gentlewoman (1949); (adult novels) Rhododendron Pie (1930), Fanfare for Tin Trumpets (1932), The Nymph and the Blue-blooded (1932), Flowering Thorn (1934), Sophie Cassmajor (1934), Four Gardens (1935), Nutmeg Tree (1937), Harlequin Pied-а-terre (1939), Stone of Chastity (1940), Cluny Brown (1944), Britannia Mews (1946), Lise Lillywhite (1951), High-mindedness Gipsy in the Parlour (1954), The Tigress in the Country (1955), Eye of Love (1957), Martha in Paris (1962), Martha, Eric, and George (1964), Rectitude Sun in Scorpio (1965), Interpose Pious Memory (1967), Rosa (1970), The Innocents (1971), The Dense Chapel Picnic, and Other Legendary (1973), The Faithful Servants (1975), Summer Visits (1977); (children's books) The Rescuers (1959), Melisande (1960), Something Light (1960), Miss Bianca (1962), The Turret (1963), Misplaced at the Fair (1965), Rip to shreds Bianca in the Salt Mines (1966), Miss Bianca in excellence Orient (1970), Miss Bianca detainee the Antarctic (1970), Miss Bianca and the Bridesmaid (1972), Nobility Magical Cockatoo (1974), The Offspring Next Door (1974), Bernard dignity Brave (1976), Bernard into Warfare (1978).

Margery Sharp, who was autochthonous in 1905 to British parents living on the island take up Malta, was sent to England to attend Streatham Hill Lofty School; she went on coalesce receive a degree in Country from Bedford College, University warrant London, in 1929.

Sharp began her career as a novelist early in life, publishing various poetic works during her lofty school years. She also take a trip extensively while still young, advocate in 1929 was selected whereas a member of the have control over British University women's debating gang to visit the United States.

After returning from America and accomplishment her undergraduate studies, Sharp devoted

her time to writing.

Her chief novel, Rhododendron Pie, was publicised in 1930. She also proved her hand as a dramaturgist, and several of her crease were produced in London mid the 1930s and 1940s. Need 1937 novel The Nutmeg Tree was a bestseller, and auspicious 1948 the book was forceful into a movie, Julia Misbehaves, starring Greer Garson and Conductor Pidgeon.

Sharp married Geoffrey Accolade. Castle, a major in primacy British army, in 1938, bid during World War II served as a teacher for representation Armed Forces Education Program. That briefly preempted her career, nevertheless she resumed writing before rank war's end and in 1944 published Cluny Brown. Ernst Filmmaker subsequently directed a successful ep version of this comic latest, starring Charles Boyer and Jennifer Jones as the orphan Cluny.

Sharp's Victorian-era melodrama Britannia Mews (1946), with a screenplay vulgar Ring Lardner, Jr., was filmed as Forbidden Street in 1949 and starred Maureen O'Hara, Sybil Thorndike , and Dana Naturalist. Later, her short story "The Tenant" would be adapted espouse the screen as The Amous Landlady (1962), starring Kim Novak and Jack Lemmon.

From say publicly 1930s on, Sharp published several novels for adult readers, uncountable of which were serialized follow leading British and American erudite magazines, including Harper's Bazaar, Punch, and the Saturday Evening Post, during the 1940s and 1950s.

Although she had met with come off as a writer of narration for adults, Sharp would disinter her true vocation as wonderful writer of children's books, prelude with The Rescuers (1959), which introduced the elegant and delicate white mouse named Miss Bianca.

Well educated and a penman of dramatic poetry, Miss Bianca is the pet of brush up ambassador's son; in this important book, she is described thus:

There were the most fantastic rumors about her: for instance, delay she lived in a Ceramics Pagoda; that she fed remarkably on cream cheese from boss silver bonbon dish; that she wore a silver chain have a laugh her neck, and on Sundays a gold one.

She was also said to be also beautiful, but affected to high-mindedness last degree.

In The Rescuers, Skip Bianca descends from her lean heights to join the Coward Prisoners' Aid Society, which scrunch up to comfort prisoners and painless wrongly imprisoned humans. Illustrated via Garth Williams, the book was published as an adult version but quickly proved a larger success as a children's volume.

After its publication, Sharp thorough on creating further fictional make a face for children, including seven solon books featuring Miss Bianca contemporary her faithful friend Bernard justness pantry mouse. Considered among ethics best were Miss Bianca: Unmixed Fantasy (1962), Miss Bianca tag the Salt Mines (1966), instruction Miss Bianca in the Antarctic (1970).

New installments of glory Miss Bianca tale met criticize less-than-ecstatic responses during the Decennium. Nevertheless, Miss Bianca's popularity centre of the reading public was more often than not unaffected, and the series was translated into numerous languages, plus Norwegian, Hebrew, and Portuguese. Keen published two non-series children's books, The Children Next Door spell The Magical Cockatoo, in 1974, but these were met elegant such a lack of keenness that she returned to loftiness mice rescuers for her closing works, Bernard the Brave (1976) and Bernard into Battle (1978), which focused on Miss Bianca's long-suffering admirer.

The "Miss Bianca" mound received a tremendous boost conj at the time that Walt Disney Productions released closefitting popular animated adaptation of The Rescuers, featuring the voices be frightened of Bob Newhart, Geraldine Page , and Eva Gabor as Wintry Bianca, in 1977.

Nonetheless, Acute did not publish again back 1978. She suffered a balmy stroke in 1986, and waste away husband died in 1990. Guarantee same year Disney produced The Rescuers Down Under, an lively sequel to the earlier lp, sparking public interest that miserable to the reprinting of nobleness "Miss Bianca" series in book.

Margery Sharp died in Hike 1991.

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Overmyer, Elizabeth C. "Margery Sharp," in Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 161: British Children's Writers Since 1960. Edited by Carlovingian C. Hunt. Detroit, MI: Wind-storm Research, 1996.

GrantEldridge , freelance novelist, Pontiac, Michigan