By Taylor Jasmine | On October 25, 2017 | Updated April 10, 2024 | Comments (0)
The Rescuers by Margery Sharp was the first children’s novel by this British author, who was also known for her romantic comic novels for adults (one of the best known of which was Cluny Brown). With drawings by well-known American illustrator Garth Williams, it was published in 1959, both in the UK and US.
The novel launched a series of books starring Miss Bianca, a socialite mouse who assisted animals as well as humans in perilous situations, and fellow mice Bernard and Nils. These well-received children’s novels have had legions of grown-up fans as well, and all told added up to nine books.
Disney adapted the stories to two animated films, The Rescuers (1977) and The Rescuers Down Under ( 1990). This brief description is from the New York Review of Books edition (2016): Read More→
By Taylor Jasmine | On October 24, 2017 | Updated December 23, 2022 | Comments (0)
From the 1957 Little, Brown edition of The Eye of Love by Margery Sharp: She was his lovely Spanish rose, the most beautiful woman he had ever beheld. He was her bluff King Hal, tall and handsome, the masterful lover of her dreams.
Only Margery Sharp, author of Cluny Brown and Britannia Mews could have written this civilized, witty, and wise story of Harry Gibson and Dolores Diver, a pair of lovers who always saw each other — no matter how others might see them — with the eye of love. Read More→
By Taylor Jasmine | On October 23, 2017 | Updated December 23, 2022 | Comments (0)
From the 1960 Little, Brown edition of Something Light by Margery Sharp: Something Light is the story of Louisa Mary Datchett, who was “very fond of men” — indiscriminately fond of men, in fact.
Men, for their part, seemed to recognize this in her and took advantage of it — and of her — when they needed listening to, when they needed prescriptions filled, employment found, socks washed, suits fetched from the cleaners, or musical instruments got out of hock.
“She was constantly being either send for, like a fire engine, or dispatched, like a life boat, to the scene of some masculine disaster.” Read More→
By Taylor Jasmine | On October 22, 2017 | Updated December 23, 2022 | Comments (0)
From the original review of Miss Bianca (book #2 in The Rescuers series) by Margery Sharp in The Anniston Star, November, 1962:
What a joy it is, in the harsh literary wilderness of earnest tragedy and frantic sophistication, to find an occasional fairy tale, all delight and whimsy and otherworldliness!
Margery Sharp gave us this pleasure several years ago with her wonderful little book, The Rescuers, the stirring tale of the Mouse Prisoners’ Aid Society and its daring rescue of a Scandinavian poet from the gloomy dungeons of the notorious Black Castle. Read More→
By Nava Atlas | On October 21, 2017 | Updated May 9, 2023 | Comments (0)
Britannia Mews by Margery Sharp is a 1946 novel that fits well into this British author’s skill for creating entertaining, lighthearted stories.
Known for her wit and wry wisdom about human nature, Britannia Mews chronicles lives spanning three generations.
The novel was adapted to a 1949 film, retitled The Forbidden Street. From the 1946 edition, the story is described in a nutshell: Read More→
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