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Margery Sharp

Margery Sharp was born Salisbury, Wiltshire. She attended Chiswick House High School in Malta in 1912-1913, and Streatham Hill High School 1914-1923. In 1925 she went to Bedford College, earning a general arts degree and then a BA in French. She studied art for one year at Westminster Art School. After school she became a full-time writer, writing short stories and working on a novel. In 1938 she married Major Geoffrey Castle, an aeronautical engineer. During World War II she served as an Army Education Lecturer, travelling and lecturing and continuing to write. She produced 26 novels for adults, 14 stories for children, 4 plays, 2 mysteries, and many short stories. 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.

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The Rescuers original book series list:
1. The Rescuers 1959 (quite different from the movie)
2. Miss Bianca 1962
3. The Turret 1963
4. Miss Bianca in the Salt Mines 1967
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 1977
9. Bernard into Battle 1978 (reviewer's note: violence, not recommended for small children)

Novelizations of the Disney movies, The Rescuers (1977) and The Rescuers Down Under (1990) are also available.

Born 25 January 1905
Died 14 March 1991

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  • Cover of: The turret.
    Cover of edition turret0000shar First published in 1963 9 editions

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  • Cover of: The Rescuers
    First published in 1959 8 editions

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  • Cover of: Miss Bianca.
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  • Cover of: The Nutmeg Tree
    First published in 1937 7 editions

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  • Cover of: Bernard the Brave: a Miss Bianca story

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  • Cover of: The rescuers.
    First published in 1959 6 editions

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  • Cover of: Cluny Brown: A Novel
    First published in 1944 5 editions

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  • Cover of: The eye of love.
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  • Cover of: The sun in Scorpio.
    First published in 1965 5 editions

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  • Cover of: Turret
    First published in 1963 4 editions

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  • Cover of: Miss Bianca in the Salt Mines
    First published in 1966 4 editions

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  • Cover of: Something light.
    First published in 1960 4 editions

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  • Cover of: Rescuers
    First published in 2010 4 editions

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  • Cover of: The flowering thorn.
    First published in 1934 4 editions

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  • Cover of: Britannia mews.
    First published in 1946 3 editions

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  • Cover of: The innocents.
    First published in 1971 3 editions

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