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Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith (3 May 1896 – 24 November 1990) was an English novelist and playwright. She is best known for writing I Capture the Castle (1948) and the children's novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1956).
I Capture the Castle was Dodie Smith's first novel, written during the Second World War when she and her husband Alec Beesley, a conscientious objector, moved from their native England to California. Smith was already an established playwright and later became famous for writing the children's classic The Hundred and One Dalmatians .
Nov 24, 1990 · Dodie Smith. 4.10 avg rating — 39,224 ratings. Meet the Authors of Summer's Buzziest YA Novels. Looking for new young adult books featuring determined protagonists, sweet romance, and adventures of every kind? Then these authors are... Read more... 74 likes · 0 comments. Quotes by Dodie Smith (?) “There is only one page left to write on.
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Dodie Smith. 4.00. 105,806 ratings10,895 reviews. Through six turbulent months of 1934, 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain keeps a journal, filling three notebooks with sharply funny yet poignant entries about her home, a ruined Suffolk castle, and her eccentric and penniless family.
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Sep 27, 2018 · Dodie Smith (May 3, 1896 – November 24, 1990), born Dorothy Gladys Smith in Lancashire, England, was one of the most successful female dramatists of her generation.
Oct 20, 2017 · She’s an aspiring author, and she is setting out to capture in words the ruined castle where she lives with her family, in the middle of the English countryside in the 1930s.
Dodie Smith has 80 books on Goodreads with 320107 ratings. Dodie Smith’s most popular book is I Capture the Castle.
