Martha in Paris: Now eighteen, Martha is blessed with the opportunity of a lifetime: an all-expenses-paid trip to Paris to study painting. masterpiece with a great deal of wit and not an ounce of sentimentality." - The Guardian "This postwar novel is one of her best." - The New York Times Yet with help from Dolores's artistically inclined, orphaned nine-year-old niece, Martha, the couple may still find their way to happily ever after, in this New York Times bestseller. But ten years later, during the Great Depression, Harry must marry his colleague's daughter to rescue his nearly bankrupt business. Dolores and Harry have been passionately in love ever since. The Eye of Love: They met at the Chelsea Arts Ball: He came as a brown paper parcel, she as a Spanish dancer. " offers a completely unique portrait of female genius, in all its single-minded dedication and selfishness" ( The New York Times). In her New York Times bestseller, The Eye of Love, she introduced nine-year-old artist Martha, a character so fascinating Sharp continued her story into adulthood in two beautifully wrought follow-up novels. Novelizations of the Disney movies, The Rescuers (1977) and The Rescuers Down Under (1990) are also available.This New York Times–bestselling trilogy follows an artistic girl as she grows up to become a painter-from the "highly gifted" author of Cluny Brown ( The New Yorker).Ī master of the twentieth-century comedy of manners, British author Margery Sharp has been praised as "one of the most gifted writers of comedy" ( Chicago Daily News) and "a wonderful entertainer" ( The New Yorker). Bernard into Battle 1978 (reviewer's note: violence, not recommended for small children) The Rescuers 1959 (quite different from the movie)ĩ.
Her most famous work is The Rescuers series about a mouse named Miss Bianca, which was adapted in two animated feature films, The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under.ġ.
She produced 26 novels for adults, 14 stories for children, 4 plays, 2 mysteries, and many short stories. During World War II she served as an Army Education Lecturer, travelling and lecturing and continuing to write. In 1938 she married Major Geoffrey Castle, an aeronautical engineer. After school she became a full-time writer, writing short stories and working on a novel. She studied art for one year at Westminster Art School. In 1925 she went to Bedford College, earning a general arts degree and then a BA in French. She attended Chiswick House High School in Malta in 1912-1913, and Streatham Hill High School 1914-1923. Margery Sharp was born Salisbury, Wiltshire.
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