Margery Sharp (1905–1991)
Author of The Rescuers
About the Author
Series
Works by Margery Sharp
The Margery Sharp Collection Volume One: Something Light, The Nutmeg Tree, The Flowering Thorn, and The Innocents (2018) 8 copies
Set of 5 Bernard & Bianca Stories: The Rescuers; Miss Bianca; The Turret; Bernard the Brave; Miss Bianca in the Orient (1994) 2 copies
Tres mujeres gallegas del siglo XIX: Concepción Arenal, Rosalía de Castro, Emilia Pardo Bazán (Biblioteca… (1977) 1 copy
Muserejsen 1 copy
Associated Works
Alfred Hitchcock's Fireside Book of Suspense — Contributor — 2 copies
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- Other names
- Sharp, Clara Margery Melita
- Birthdate
- 1905-01-25
- Date of death
- 1991-03-14
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK
- Place of death
- Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England, UK
- Education
- Bedford College, University of London (BA|1928)
- Occupations
- novelist
children's book author - Relationships
- Castle, Geoffrey (husband)
- Organizations
- British Universities Women's Debating Team
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Statistics
- Works
- 52
- Also by
- 12
- Members
- 5,817
- Popularity
- #4,234
- Rating
- 3.9
- Reviews
- 164
- ISBNs
- 225
- Languages
- 9
- Favorited
- 12
Much of Cluny Brown is the kind of light, witty comedy you find many women authors producing in interwar Britain, with our namesake character's naive honesty highlighting many of the absurdities and assumptions of the class system. Some of the characters act in ways that I didn't find entirely convincing—there's a bit of that Wodehousian tendency towards abrupt engagements and so on—but I could roll with it as part of the style of the period. Since Margery Sharp wrote this in the late 40s, however, there's a little bit of melancholy foreshadowing of the war to come which provides an acid that leavens some of the giddier elements.
Where the book worked less well for me was the ending.