tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post6184269430199606471..comments2024-03-28T12:00:55.653-07:00Comments on FURROWED MIDDLEBROW: Reading diary: E. M. CHANNON, MARGERY SHARPFurrowed Middlebrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-25460794937821810852016-11-13T15:26:10.997-08:002016-11-13T15:26:10.997-08:00This review has made me determined to get my hands...This review has made me determined to get my hands on this and some other Sharp novels which I have not read. Always enjoyed the ones I found in the library, especially "Something Light."motherofmikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03412979100967973575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-72432205743030024442016-06-25T20:00:52.159-07:002016-06-25T20:00:52.159-07:00I think you are completely right that Sharp is a n...I think you are completely right that Sharp is a novelist waiting for a rediscovery. I wonder if somehow her reputation as a children's novelist got tangled with her adult reputation -- so that her adult novel were forgotten, and when Disney got done with THE RESCUERS so too were her children's novels forgotten.<br /><br />I also think that in a way she's too funny. I'd say she's the equal of, say, Barbara Pym, but Pym is just that bit more "respectable", i.e. less funny, that Pym is eligible for elevation to the canon, and Sharp is unread.<br /><br />As for me, I read the Miss Bianca novels with great enjoyment when I was a kid. Then, sometime in the '80s, I read CLUNY BROWN and THE NUTMEG TREE and really liked them. And then ... nothing. (I must add that it took me a very long time to realize that the Margery Sharp of CLUNY BROWN was the same person who wrote the Rescuers stories.)<br /><br />Most recently I read THE STONE OF CHASTITY -- enjoyable, not the equal of CLUNY BROWN or THE NUTMEG TREE. <br />Rich Hortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07659613066689174738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-80204077983617193692015-11-30T11:42:36.327-08:002015-11-30T11:42:36.327-08:00Since you mention e-books yourself Scott, I am bra...Since you mention e-books yourself Scott, I am brave enough to point out that Twice Dead, The Chimney Murder and The Gilt-Edged Mystery are all currently available for the Kindle at 99pence on UK Amazon....Cestinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03050699324845479257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-27710407277561805612015-11-25T20:27:41.635-08:002015-11-25T20:27:41.635-08:00Oh, I do like Little G. I've read it twice in...Oh, I do like <i>Little G</i>. I've read it twice in the last year and just find it so charming without being cloyingly sweet. Shirley at Greyladies says its one of her favourites and I can completely understand. Claire (The Captive Reader)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07430380065718826213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-60218772746548609502015-11-25T15:30:43.677-08:002015-11-25T15:30:43.677-08:00Also the neglected child(ren) of wealthy parents w...Also the neglected child(ren) of wealthy parents who <br />benefit from a good and loving Nanny, other relations, or equivalent. Tonia and Lou in Listening Valley, Anne and Nell in Amberwell, Freddy in Sarah's Cottage.<br /><br />JerriAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-70829994677213310342015-11-25T08:44:09.241-08:002015-11-25T08:44:09.241-08:00"Can one imagine such a character appearing a..."Can one imagine such a character appearing at all in a D. E. Stevenson novel, much less as a heroine?"<br /><br />Well, I'd say such a character frequently appears in DES. It's a recurring theme: the neglected or abused child of the unfit parent. Invariably (almost) the child is rescued by caring people who provide a loving, stable home. Agnes in The Tall Stranger, Bertie in The Four Graces, Patrick in The House on the Cliff, to name a few. <br /><br />Clearly not Julia. :^)Susan Dhttp://www.dalyght.ca/tuscany2015/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-67892373559689416982015-11-24T09:50:27.837-08:002015-11-24T09:50:27.837-08:00I had only ever read "In Pious Memory," ...I had only ever read "In Pious Memory," a later title, I think, and wickedly funny. And I now want to SEE "Julia Misbehaves." Alas, unless someone gives me an Amazon gift card, that may not happen, as it is an "elusive film." Speaking of "elusive," I just finished reading "Britannia Mews," which I found at a library book sale - wasn't surea t first, but then loved it. Did you know it was filmed as "The Forbidden Street," and the poster depicts a rather lurid and erotic encounter between Maureen O'Hara and Dana Andrews. With Sybil Thorndike as the evil Mrs. Mounsey. I dunno.....<br />TomAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-20238224558571988222015-11-24T07:41:49.204-08:002015-11-24T07:41:49.204-08:00I particularly enjoyed these reviews - thank you! ...I particularly enjoyed these reviews - thank you! I loved 'Eye of Love' by Margery Sharp when I read it years ago and have been hoping some publisher would reprint others by her ever since. I only discovered Channon this year and find her highly entertaining. I can recommend all three of the school books which Books to Treasure have reprinted. She has a rather subversive sense of humour which I enjoy.<br />FrancesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com