Margery Sharp was an English author. She was a prolific writer in her long career, writing 26 novels for adults, 14 stories for children, 4 plays, 2 mysteries, as well as numerous short stories. Her most famous work is The Rescuers series about a mouse named Miss Bianca, which was later adapted in two animated feature films, The Rescuers

The Rescuers

The Rescuers is a 1977 American animated feature produced by Walt Disney Productions and first released on June 22, 1977. The 23rd film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, the film is about the Rescue Aid Society, an international mouse organization headquartered in New York and shadowing...

and The Rescuers Down Under

The Rescuers Down Under

The Rescuers Down Under is a 1990 American animated film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution on November 16, 1990...

by Disney.

Life

She was born Clara Margery Melita Sharp in the district of Salisbury

Salisbury

Salisbury is a cathedral city in Wiltshire, England and the only city in the county. It is the second largest settlement in the county...

 in the county of Wiltshire

Wiltshire

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, although her family originated from northern Yorkshire

Yorkshire

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. She spent part of her childhood in Malta

Malta

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.

In 1938 she married Major Geoffrey Castle, an aeronautical engineer.

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)
• Harlequin House (1939)
• The Stone of Chastity (1940)
• Three Companion Pieces (1941)
• Cluny Brown
  Cluny Brown (novel)
  Cluny Brown is a humorous coming of age novel by Margery Sharp, first published in the United States of America by Little, Brown & Company in August 1944....
  
  (1944), which was made into a movie of the same title
  Cluny Brown
  Cluny Brown is a 1946 film made by Twentieth Century-Fox, directed and produced by Ernst Lubitsch. The screenplay was written by Samuel Hoffenstein and Elizabeth Reinhardt, based on a novel by Margery Sharp. The music score is by Cyril J. Mockridge. The film stars Charles Boyer and Jennifer Jones...
  
  
• Britannia Mews (1946)
• The Foolish Gentlewoman (1948)
• Lise Lillywhite (1951)
• The Gipsy in the Parlour (1954)
• Something Light (1960)
• The Sun in Scorpio (1965)
• In Pious Memory (1967)
• Rosa (1970)
• The Innocents (1972)
• The Lost Chapel Picnic and Other Stories (1973)
• The Faithful Servants (1975)
• Summer Visits (1977)

Martha series

1. The Eye of Love (1957)
2. Martha in Paris (1962)
3. Martha, Eric and George (1964)

Children's novels

• Melisande (1960)
• Lost at the Fair (1965)
• The Magical Cockatoo (1974)
• The Children Next Door (1974)

The Rescuers series

1. The Rescuers (1959)
2. Miss Bianca (1962)
3. The Turret (1963)
4. Miss Bianca in the Salt Mines (1966)
5. Miss Bianca in the Orient (1970)
6. Miss Bianca in the Antarctic (1971)
7. Miss Bianca and the Bridesmaid (1972)
8. Bernard the Brave
   Bernard the Brave
   Bernard the Brave is a novel written by British novelist Margery Sharp. It is the eighth novel in a series of nine known collectively as The Rescuers which tells the story of two little mice, Bernard and Miss Bianca, and their adventures as members of the Mouse Prisoner's Aid Society, a mouse...
   
   (1977)
9. Bernard into Battle (1978)

External links

• http://www.margerysharp.com