Margery Sharp
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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. Her best-known work is The Rescuers series about a heroic mouse named Miss Bianca and her partner Bernard, which was later adapted into the animated feature film The Rescuers (1977) – and a sequel, The Rescuers Down Under (1990) – by Walt Disney Productions.
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. Her best-known work is The Rescuers series about a heroic mouse named Miss Bianca and her partner Bernard, which was later adapted into the animated feature film The Rescuers (1977) – and a sequel, The Rescuers Down Under (1990) – by Walt Disney Productions.
Selected works
Adult novels
Rhododendron Pie (1930) Fanfare for Tin Trumpets (1932) The Nymph and The Nobleman (1932) The Flowering Thorn (1934) Sophy Cassmajor (1934) Four Gardens (1935) The Nutmeg Tree (1937), which was made into the film Julia Misbehaves Harlequin House (1939) The Stone of Chastity (1940) Three Companion Pieces (1941) – contains Sophy Cassmajor, The Tigress on the Hearth and The Nymph and the Nobleman Cluny Brown (1944), which was made into a movie of the same title Britannia Mews (1946), which was made into the film The Forbidden Street The Foolish Gentlewoman (1948) Lise Lillywhite (1951) The Gipsy in the Parlour (1954) The Tigress on the Hearth (1955) The Eye of Love (1957) – Martha Trilogy I Something Light (1960) Martha in Paris (1962) – Martha Trilogy II Martha, Eric and George (1964) – Martha Trilogy III The Sun in Scorpio (1965) In Pious Memory (1967) Rosa (1969) The Innocents (1972) The Lost Chapel Picnic and Other Stories (1973) The Faithful Servants (1975) Summer Visits (1977)
Wordless Novels
Melisande. Little Brown & Co, USA; 1960
Children's novels
Lost at the Fair (1965) The Magical Cockatoo (1974) The Children Next Door (1974)
The Rescuers series
The Rescuers (1959) Miss Bianca (1962) The Turret (1963) Miss Bianca in the Salt Mines (1966) Miss Bianca in the Orient (1970) Miss Bianca in the Antarctic (1971) Miss Bianca and the Bridesmaid (1972) Bernard the Brave (1977) Bernard into Battle (1978)
Other
"The Notorious Tenant" (1956), short story on which the movie The Notorious Landlady was based
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