Sharp, Margery. Britannia Mews
Sharp, Margery. Britannia Mews

Sharp, Margery. Britannia Mews

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Sharp, Margery. Britannia Mews. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1946. First Edition. [6233]

Stated first edition, published June, 1946.

Magenta cloth with bright gilt titles in dark blue vignettes, 5 1/2 x 8 inches, 378 clean pp., priced dust jacket a bit edge-worn with small chipping at the spine ends, colors bright. Very good in good dust-jacket. Hardcover.

"With this novel Margery Sharp surpasses her own record for warmhearted, entertaining stories. She has used her light touch, her gentle wisdom about human nature, not in a comedy but in a sympathetic chronicle of a life spanning three generations. Here is a book in which the reader can lose himself, a book about people who will take their places among the living in literature...Britannia Mews had housed the horses and coachmen of Adelaide's family and their set in 1875...As her story unfolds it becomes the richly varied account not only of an exceptional woman, but of an English family over three quarters of a century - an account that ends only after the buzz-bombs have spend their fury over England." - publisher.

Clara Margery Melita Sharp (25 January 1905 – 14 March 1991) was an English author 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 two mice named Bernard and Miss Bianca, which was later adapted in two animated feature films – The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under – by Disney. - wikipedia.