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Dorothy Gladys " Dodie " Smith (3 May 1896 – 24 November 1990) was an English novelist and playwright. She is best known for writing I Capture the Castle (1948) and the children's novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1956). Other works include Dear Octopus (1938) and The Starlight Barking (1967).
Nov 24, 1990 · edit data. Born Dorothy Gladys Smith in Lancashire, England, Dodie Smith was raised in Manchester (her memoir is titled A Childhood in Manchester). She was just an infant when her father died, and she grew up fatherless until age 14, when her mother remarried and the family moved to London. There she studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic ...
I Capture the Castle was Dodie Smith's first novel, written during the Second World War when she and her husband Alec Beesley, a conscientious objector, moved from their native England to California.Smith was already an established playwright and later became famous for writing the children's classic The Hundred and One Dalmatians.. The novel concerns an eccentric family struggling to live in genteel poverty in a decaying castle during the 1930s. The first-person narrator is Cassandra ...
Dodie Smith is the author of The 101 Dalmatians (the original basis for the Disney movie, and the only reason I was familiar with her name), which I read many years ago and really enjoyed. This 1948 novel is about an intelligent 17 year old girl, Cassandra Mortmain, who lives in semi-genteel but crushing poverty in mid-1930s England, in a dilapidated castle. Cassandra has ambitions of becoming an author like her father.
Dodie Smith. Writer: Cruella. Born Dorothy Gladys Smith in Lancashire, England, Dodie Smith was raised in Manchester (her memoir is titled "A Childhood in Manchester"). She was just an infant when her father died, and she grew up fatherless until age 14, when her mother remarried and the family moved to London. There she studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and tried for a career as an actress,...
Dodie Smith has 80 books on Goodreads with 322291 ratings. Dodie Smith’s most popular book is I Capture the Castle.
Sep 27, 2018 · Dodie Smith (May 3, 1896 – November 24, 1990), born Dorothy Gladys Smith in Lancashire, England, was one of the most successful female dramatists of her generation. The British novelist and playwright is even better known for her novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians (later better known as The 101 Dalmatians) and the young adult novel I ...
Oct 20, 2017 · “Every time I meet someone who also loves I Capture the Castle,” writes Jenny Han in her foreword to the new edition of Dodie Smith’s 1948 classic, “I know we must be kindred spirits.” I ...
Apr 1, 2003 · Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith, born in 1896 in Lancashire, England, was one of the most successful female dramatists of her generation.She wrote Autumn, Crocus, and Dear Octopus, among other plays.I Capture the Castle, her first novel, was written in the 1940s while she was living in America. An immediate success, it marked her crossover from playwright to novelist, and was produced as a play in 1954.
Dodie (Dorothy) Smith was born in 1896 in Northern England. Although she studied drama, she turned her talents to writing, successfully submitting a screenplay to a silent movie company and writing the script for Autumn Crocus, which opened in 1931 to rave reviews.In 1934, Dodie’s husband Alec brought home a Dalmatian puppy named Pongo, a gift that would eventually inspire her to write on of the greatest works of literature today.
Dodie Smith. Macmillan, 1948 - Fiction - 343 pages. One of the 20th century's most beloved novels is still winning hearts, Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle! “This book has one of the most charismatic narrators I've ever met.”. -- J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series Adapted to a feature film in 2003, I Capture the Castle tells ...
Dodie Smith. Writer: Cruella. Born Dorothy Gladys Smith in Lancashire, England, Dodie Smith was raised in Manchester (her memoir is titled "A Childhood in Manchester"). She was just an infant when her father died, and she grew up fatherless until age 14, when her mother remarried and the family moved to London. There she studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and tried for a career as an actress,...
Nov 13, 2020 · Dodie Smith’s I Capture the Castle provides all this and more, as her heroine struggles to find herself and wade through first love, all the while setting it down in writing. Set in the early twentieth-century English county side, I Capture the Castle, is the first-person journal of Cassandra Mortmain in year of her eighteenth birthday. Cassandra is the middle child of a once famous modernist writer.
Mar 15, 1999 · One of the 20th century's most beloved novels is still winning hearts, Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle! “This book has one of the most charismatic narrators I've ever met.” -- J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series Adapted to a feature film in 2003, I Capture the Castle tells the story of seventeen-year-old Cassandra and her family, who live in not-so-genteel poverty in a ramshackle old English castle. Here she strives, over six turbulent months, to hone her writing skills.
Jan 30, 2012 · Dorothy Gladys ‘Dodie’ Smith was born in 1896 in Lancashire and she was one of the most successful female dramatists of her generation. Her first novel, I Capture the Castle, was written when she lived in America during the 1940’s and marked her crossover debut from playwright to novelist. The novel became an immediate success and was produced as a play in 1954. She has written numerous other novels but is best known today for The Hundred and One Dalmatians, a story for younger readers.
Mar 15, 1999 · Dodie Smith, the author of the charming "101 Dalmatians," published "I Capture the Castle" in 1948. The story is a revelry told by Cassandra Mortmain, a 17-year-old girl living with her family in the English countryside. Her father, once a literary darling, suffers from a 12-year writing block which he treats as a mental enemy hovering over Life--- a writing block that is both an internal and external enemy, consigning them to poverty, threatening the family's existence. ...
Dorothy Gladys 'Dodie' Smith was born in 1896 in Lancashire and she was one of the most successful female dramatists of her generation. Her first novel, I Capture the Castle, was written when she lived in America during the 1940's and marked her crossover debut from playwright to novelist. The novel became an immediate success and was produced ...
One of BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World. A wonderfully quirky coming-of-age story, I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith, author of The Hundred and One Dalmatians is an affectionately drawn portrait of one of the funniest families in literature. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon...
Dodie Smith wrote I Capture the Castle when she was living away from England, in the US, and the homesickness and longing for England can be seen clearly in the book. The story takes place in a crumbling castle where the protagonist Cassandra lives with her family, sliding into 'genteel poverty'. Her father wrote a famous book once but now spends his time reading detective novels. Her stepmother Topaz and elder sister Rose make do with whatever they can manage.
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Jan 1, 2004 · Dodie Smith, the author of the charming "101 Dalmatians," published "I Capture the Castle" in 1948. The story is a revelry told by Cassandra Mortmain, a 17-year-old girl living with her family in the English countryside. Her father, once a literary darling, suffers from a 12-year writing block which he treats as a mental enemy hovering over Life--- a writing block that is both an internal and external enemy, consigning them to poverty, threatening the family's existence. ...
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Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle. Dodie Smith's classic story about an eccentric family and five star-crossed lovers, set in a crumbling castle in 1930s Suffolk. Dramatised by Jane Rogers.
Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith was an English novelist and playwright, famously known for writing The Hundred and One Dalmatians, which was adapted by Disney into the 1961 animated film and the 1996 live-action film. Dorothy was born on May 3, 1896 in Whitefield near Bury in Lancashire. An only child, her parents were Ernest and Ella Smith (née Furber). Ernest was a bank manager; he died in 1898, when Dorothy was two years old. Dodie and her mother moved to Old Trafford to live with her ...
Macmillan, 1948 - Fiction - 343 pages. One of the 20th century's most beloved novels is still winning hearts, Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle! “This book has one of the most charismatic narrators I've ever met.”. -- J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series. Adapted to a feature film in 2003, I Capture the Castle tells the story of ...
3 days ago · Dodie Smith, 1948 . 7 hours and 25 minutes to read. 372. A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens, 1843 . 1 hour and 31 minutes to read. 373. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Tom Wolfe, 1968 .
